Legit sounds like the person you are replying to is having a personal, visceral reaction to the results of this experiment compared to the results of (themselves or) others.

As a complete outsider, I say scale it out rather than complain! I eat chapati every day, so I am biased towards wanting success to occur.

It is always possible that endeavors will fail.

"Those who say something is impossible should get out of the way of those who are doing it"