I guess you were consumed by the idea that “TGD is smart, intelligent, and not greedy,” just like Misleading was consumed by his own arrogance and the “the new big is small” mindset.
I saw this coming a long time ago. When Misleading published that tiny P2a OL trial data, everyone was reacting with euphoria. He even published a peer-reviewed paper based on that data, and a few posters here were debating it like it was a bible story.
When something looks like a scam and smells like a scam, it usually is a scam. One of the biggest indicators was the employee profiles. Misleading himself is a buffoon, guy can’t even stitch two sentences together, was keeps pushing his “around the corner” timelines, then he hired a model from his harem to run business development when there was no actual business to develop, and an accountant whom he sometimes calls the CFO and other times the bookkeeper, yet she is not even listed on the management team. It was always a very strange combination.