The important thing is that the founder (and probably many of us would think similarly) is that even now after it failed they still think there are other reasons it failed and that there was a great idea that failed due to ... technicalities. But as you mention and seems to be widely believed is that this is a bad idea in general, or at the very least not as good as the OP thinks.

One of the comments was

>With all the negative pushback this is getting, it’s making me think he was onto something.

Or maybe the idea is bad. I see this line of thought all the time sometimes implied by the misattributed Gandhi quote.