OK, let's take a step back here a bit get me to clear up a few things. I am not attacking the case/product, just... most of the things outside of it... I have written the previous post and keep writing this one not attack you for the sake of it, but to point out where, in my opinion, you were and still are going very, very wrong. I have been waiting for this case for what feels like 2 years and must admit invested emotionally a bit in it, otherwise I would have just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and moved on.
The post you linked with the picture illustrates it perfectly why you chose to go for one method and not the other, it is pretty self-explanatory and I understand, and support, it (in a perfect world I would prefer some post-processing done to the cast shell to make it look awesome, but don't know if that is even possible... not my area of expertise).
Here is the problem though:
This whole operation suffers from appalling communications.
Until I have pointed it out, your official website was incorrect (technically still is, the renders do not represent how the final product will look like as it doesn't have the "lines" where elements would be joined). Sure, it's no longer a flat out lie, but still leads people to believe that the product will turn out differently than it will. Obviously you can't make new renders just like that, but that just demonstrates that the priorities outside of the product itself are placed incorrectly.
I understand you are under a lot of pressure now, but please don't use the "we don't have the resources of Apple" line. It sounds both like a deflection of the issues and is insulting (I took it as "we don't have a market cap of 1.1T $$$ so be happy with/accept whatever we do"). I don't want to write "you", because I don't know if it was you, but the fact of the matter is that on the "THOR ZONE" side of the project someone made a decision to dedicate their time to designing T-Shirts and help people with calculating shipping, VAT and customs on multiple platforms, instead of tending to the website and being clear about fundamental changes to the product.
To me, the design changes you have made significantly alter how I see the case and I'm looking at it as if it was a completely new product (the unibody aspect was a huuuuge point). I am looking forward to seeing the youtube reviews and the posts about v1, might still join the kickstarter, who knows, maybe I'll get re-hyped/convinced or just wait for v2.
What I would really like is to get the internal spine/skeleton/whatever it's called now, and then maybe get the outside panels/elements in the future...
