Doc,I feel your pain. We get very little info out of this Management Team. I can only assume it's due to their assessment that steps they have taken, and results, are not suitable for public dissemination.
That of course leaves it to shareholders to assess progress on very thin gruel. Speculation flourishes in this environment. And when the speculations do not materializes it add to the collective angst of Board members. I have to believe if the MT could speed up recruitment, they would. Why wouldn't they? Well, I guess we just don't know what they know, and what they don't know. The MT are individually successful. The are smart, and I have every reason to believe they care about getting the product out as fast as we do.
That's just the way it is, and until the MT thinks they're ready to communicate, we'll just have to wait for the PRs to flow.
So like you, I have to twist in the wind until better times arrive. BTW, I have every reason (w/o any hard evidence) to believe better times will appear!