Before the announcement of the new CoD and other space-related games from the major publishers, this would have been true. But I think that although the gaming press has seen the writing on the wall for quite a while, but were reluctant to get involved, they now have an incentive to encourage candid discussion of the true state of SC’s progress, and the chances of anything ‘released’ matching the dreams pre-sold.
The major publishers would approve. It reduces the risk that money that could be used to purchase their own games being sucked into the SC black-hole – and receiving the approval of companies that have advertising dollars to spend is always interesting to those that depend of the same advertising dollars for their survival.