Hard experience is the reason for the change in tone.
Last year, NWBO came out and said that we would be getting TLD in September 2020. Sure it was not in a legally binding way, no one can sue them and all that but that is effectively what they said.
Then they pulled the rug out from under our feet and did the bait and switch of data lock and modified the process to TLD added in an article which would add an unspecified number of months and be under the control of a publication.
For crucial context remember that NWBO shareholders have already waited on an article before and it was supposed to be in a respected publication and ended up, after much delay, being in a lower tier publication and had, to be generous a modest impact for shareholders.
Fast forward one year and we are in September 2021.
Again, we have crucial context. Many, many times NWBO optimists have pointed to similar types of fragmentary news and constructed beautiful scenarios only for those never to come to pass. Shareholders who have been here 7 years have seen it in one form or another at least 7 times albeit with greater or less enthusiastic discussion and corresponding harsher or gentler let downs. Naturally, when nothing happens, its all shareholder's fault for 'making assumptions' etc. etc. etc.
So now it is really unreasonable to expect shareholders to embrace the possibility that NWBO is really going to do it this time, during this Fall, even though this year there are fewer indisputable signs (like NWBO saying twice it would be in September) than there were last year and last year's disappointment clear.
Maybe you are right and things are more likely this year than last year but shareholders are also quite rational in believing that just like the breadcrumbs have turned out to be wrong year after year and that NWBO has a boundless capacity for delaying things without proper explanation or apology, this scenario is at least just as likely to result in that same outcome.
Just from my perspective, I would not be shocked to get TLD this fault and I would be even less shocked if this Christmas we get another lump of Coal from Linda Powers (and Santa Claus and the mangy Easter Bunny).
