Most of us have side projects that we can be troubled by. We also don't put them out for everyone to see, nor do we say publicly that we are giving up because t

Most of us have side projects that we can be troubled by. We also don't put them out for everyone to see, nor do we say publicly that we are giving up because the hard work is now upon us. I have lots of side projects that I may live to see finished. However, any that I say I am working on get assigned time to move them forward - they may take years to complete, but they will be worked on over time. From my perspective, he would have been better off saying that due to time constraints further work will be done when he is able to allocate time and leave it at that. There are plenty of projects that only get updated irregularly over years and can have years between updates. That's fine. However, if you stop a public project because you just don't want to handle the hard work now involved, that becomes something different. You are making a public statement about your character which you probably weren't intending.