Yeah, i get it, they're likely a very small company, but the inability to set expectations is annoying. They probably got more orders than anticipated. An automated message explaining delays would have been helpful. Would I have still ordered? I don't know. Nothing else on the market compares when you factor in the SFP ports and dual Thunderbolt ports. I'd probably have still ordered, but i woudln'\t have pre-ordered ram and storage which now have sitting on my desk, and it won't be returnable by the time i get it, in case i wind up unhappy with this thing. Although the feedback i've seen from people who have received it has been generally positive, including on the discord channel
Someone over there is running an esxi cluster (no clustered storage), and is really happy with the performance.