As soon as investments are made and users who chose to invest time as well as money become investors, people want to see results - especially when there is a countdown displayed online. I know what a node leader is and what they do, but I totally agree with Kiwibloke, there should be absolutely no need to dig deep, chase people, ask questions etc. I would say this is very unlike previous behaviour from DTube and I wouldn't call them fraud, but if you imagine someone investing in DTube as a newbie and then seeing the deadline go by and no communication, no official launch of the dtc, I think they would be very confused and they would be unlikely to stay optimistic.