So I pre-ordered in december 2018. After all I have learned, visiting and posting on the forums and what I can see on their youtube channel, this is indeed vaporware.
I presume that the original developers handed of the product to someone without any programming(or otherwise) skills and have left.
He is, likely trying to generate some kind of progress through using freelancers from upwork(or the like) but not really invested in getting anywhere.
I say this because the money he expects for the progress that has been made is utter lunacy.
The forum content has been neuterd just to give the impression nobody really cares anymore. But there where a lot of critical posts that where deleted and only in this area everything is being kept "up to date".