I see how that might be constructed as a negative, but IMO it's too early to tell whether that's a genuine setback to the project.
"Protecting his baby" might be a very wise decision at this point, if only because of how the reception generally goes; pigeonholing the project into something like "an AR coding environment" or "visual programming with projectors" is a very real risk that could damage the project's aims - even "clones" such as https://paperprograms.org/ make it abundantly clear that they are not attempting to be an "opensource Dynamicland".
It's only been 3 years since it was founded. While that might be generally considered an eternity in tech-time, I feel it's barely enough to get one's feet wet given the scale of the project, which seems to aim to be decades long. Besides, the roadmap they've got on their website mentions 2022 as the year they go public - so, I personally am stoked for what that will bring.
If the goal is to prevent misconceptions about the project’s goals from becoming mainstream, then partially withholding access and information about the project seems like a poor way to achieve that goal.
People will just make assumptions about what the project is based on the photos/videos they see, but won’t absorb the deeper meaning because they won’t get to actually use it.
If you read their material you'll see that they are expecting the project to "meet the world" in 2022 and are looking to achieve widespread adoption by 2040. As others have mentioned this might seem like forever in tech-startup terms, but they aren't aiming to just make a "AR-projector setup", they have much more ambitious goals, so it seems reasonable to also work on longer timelines, including keeping the "baby" in the crib until it's ready to walk instead of crawl.
"Protecting his baby" might be a very wise decision at this point, if only because of how the reception generally goes; pigeonholing the project into something like "an AR coding environment" or "visual programming with projectors" is a very real risk that could damage the project's aims - even "clones" such as https://paperprograms.org/ make it abundantly clear that they are not attempting to be an "opensource Dynamicland".
It's only been 3 years since it was founded. While that might be generally considered an eternity in tech-time, I feel it's barely enough to get one's feet wet given the scale of the project, which seems to aim to be decades long. Besides, the roadmap they've got on their website mentions 2022 as the year they go public - so, I personally am stoked for what that will bring.