Not to get into the middle of the argument about if this is some big ponzie scheme or something...
I think it's insane that they are still getting funding for this game. The fact it's at 141 million, and the don't even have a game to even show for it should have been raising red flags years ago.
And no, what they have been showing now is not the game, they are demos for specific sections of a game. While I know nothing about game development or managing a company, I can only imagine what the insane amount of funding has done to the development of this game in terms of outrageous scope and simple waste it has most likely produced (which has been documented via articles on the game development).
We've read the articles about how troubled this games development has been, giving them more money isn't going to get this thing out the door faster, if anything, the amount of money they have at hand is probably crippling development because of how they can do so much with it to make "the best game ever".
The amount of money raised has most likely doomed this project to complete mismanagement and development hell.
I'm tired of hearing people moaning about the endless development. They had to build four studios around the world from scratch and the project is publicly known from the very beginning. Of course it will take more than 4 years. And no, feature creep is not a thing anymore.
The argument shouldn't be about the games development length.
The question should be if opening four studios around the world from scratch to create this game is remotely feasible or reasonable to make a game period.