Maybe they weren't naive, but just curious? There could've been a (obviously really really) small chance that this project went perfectly fine and they'd build

Maybe they weren't naive, but just curious? There could've been a (obviously really really) small chance that this project went perfectly fine and they'd build one of the greatest games ever. But if it went like that the resulting article would be even worse. You just can't know if something like this is ever going to produce something.