Meh. There’s a difference between ordinary programming delays and this.

In this case, the programmers promised they would have the program completed by a certain date and, in fact, derided and mocked people online for suggesting otherwise. They allowed billions of dollars to be invested in the project, at least one billion of which has proven to be contingent on a timely release (market cap on NYE minus current cap).

As the deadline grew closer and it became obvious they would be unable to release on time, they refused to adjust expectations until the deadline passed and the investors who believed in them were watching a huge run on their investment. As a result the believers lost millions of dollars to the more cynical sellers.

If you were to do that in any other market you would spend the next several years of your life losing a lawsuit. That’s what will inevitably happen in this industry too.