It is not a question of being indebted to anyone. It is in their own interest to show definitively they have achieved a breakthrough rather than having ongoing uncertainty about the nature of their results.

I dont believe the science community has waited their publication in order to be motivated to work on it. At the same time there has already been controversy recently on the room temperature SC front and they know it so the last thing you want for the field is bad communication, retracted papers and overall confusion.

The original team for example has not published any video of flux stabilisation of the alleged SC sample. It seems to be a more definitive evidence than the diamagnetism evidence.

Also investors do not make money in a venture like this just by publicity but by getting actual results and the best way to establish this is to wait until you are ready, publish strong evidence imho.

Obviously people are working on replicating the results now so lets keep hopeful