The negativity came from Peter's shenanigans starting before the CC with the video with all his body language sending posters on a road to optimism and then following it up at the CC looking sober and aloof as if he was saying,"what are you guys talking about, I never said anything"?
Then going on to "WARN US" of a "potentially" long road (first it was a few weeks, now many months? Maybe?) to hear JACK.