Not seeming, tired of their crap too, but realistic and disappointed but I am not out there slamming them as crooks.
My thoughts are that this is not a scam and I defended IQ^2 because what they were trying to do is no where a simple as the angry masses think it is and I think there was a lot of naivety and wishful thinking on both sides. They could have bailed ages ago and to put this level of effort would make no sense fi they were only in it to maximize their “profit”. Right from their first slips, the backers looking for an Amazon type instant purchase immediately got very vocal on how it was a scam. I cut them some slack because after 30 years in high-tech from the biggest telecomm equipment company in the world to a 10-person aerospace startup, I know what it takes to get a concept to viable product. It ain’t easy even for big companies with lots of $$. I’ve seen lots fail, I’ve seen lots miss their mark in terms of functionality and dates. The aerospace company I worked for shifted gears on an autonomous drone while I was there, I worked on it for 3 years, and I left almost 9 years ago. They are still working on it. I left because I felt it was never going to come to fruition and the owner/president made many (in my opinion) questionable, borderline unethical moves to keep the company afloat. Not out of malice, just trying to keep it alive. I think this is where IQ^2 is. Almost out of runway trying to get something to keep it alive.
So, I am tired and disappointed but I took the risk. If I was IQ^2 i would have done things considerably differently right from the beginning where they didn’t prototype their original design and had to pivot after considerable expenditures and insurmountable design flaws and then being up front with backers. I think they grossly underestimated that backers weren’t just looking for “any” power meter but the pedal agnostic part was fundamental to the project and simply switching to another Look pedal wasn’t satisfactory but once they made the shift, they weren’t going back on it.