On the lack of progress reports from the Mill project

To give context for this post:

– The last Youtube video on the Mill channel is from 2017.
– Arguably, the last video introducing new concepts and not expanding on previous videos is from 2015.
– The last patent filed is from 2018.
– In the 2017 videos, you mention starting a funding round for an FPGA implementation. However, since then, there has been no update of how that round went, whether there has been any progress on the FPGA implementation, etc.

Now, I get that the Mill is a large-scale engineering project, that it requires lots of non-trivial work, and that its primary purpose right now isn’t to generate hype.

But it still seems to me that it would be in the best interest of the project to maintain some level of interest, especially when it comes to bringing investors. Right now the consensus on tech forums seems to be that the project is dead. The fact it hasn’t published news in the last 4 years doesn’t help.

Besides, if the intent from the beginning was to not update regularly, it seems odd to have three different subforums dedicated to announcements (“Events”, “In the press”, “Our announcements”). The fact that these three subforums exist (and are linked to from the big “News” link in the website header) but have been completely abandoned for three years communicates that the team initially intended to give regular updates, but has been avoiding progress reports for lack of progress.

Hence my question: Is the Mill project stalled? Is there any progress on the FPGA implementation? Or should people just forget about the project for the coming years?