Its even easier not to look at things objectively when you have skin in the game whether personally or professionally.....your profile mentions you're an Appics ambassador Watson ;-)
In all honesty, my annoyance at them is amplified as its the most elegant and beautiful looking Dapp in cryptoland, its should have been a massive success years ago, as you mention, almost 4 years they've been going. Perhaps if they'd skipped a bit of of the 'show' and knuckled down to doing some serious marketing instead of just making dancing videos and trying to flog trendy merch they might have got somewhere. Now, what they've managed to do is make many people, not just me, suspicious with their token selling and swapping shenanigans and I genuinely feel they are only interested in making a fast buck from token sales and self voting as opposed to providing a top quality product and marketing it. Fours years!...one fairly straightforward Dapp.
Sure I also understand other side and that people especially very early investors might be disappointed but that is how investing in crypto looks like. A lot of projects got rugged and scammed but Appics is still here trying to go back on track and let's see what will happen.
Absolutely. I will be following their progress as I've always done :-)