Surely it can't be because the clowns behind the grift are making way more money being clowns and claiming they can't show the cult what's in the box because what's in the box needs a few more hundred million dollars and just a few years, promise for reals this time.
Surely it's because what's in the box is post-Gambo levels of 
and that'll make thousands of dollars of internet jpeg investments pay off.
That's the thing with Star Citizen: it's a big money-sucking cloud of vague promises, so it's easy for the believers to make themselves believe what they want is in that mystery box, just waiting to pop out. Imagine a video game about internet spaceships making this particular believer's particular come true and the mystery box pops open at last with a big steaming fragrant eruption of .
It won't, but I suppose putting enough money into anything will make someone believe reality will bend according to their invested desires.
how long will it take for the cool fighter pilot archetype to die now that drones and passive detection are making even stealth manned aircraft obsolete
Fighter jets won't be obsolete until they come up with a more expensive piece of military hardware and a better way to let bloodthirsty children of political families go kill some people.
No idea, especially since the cool fighter pilot doesn't even have to actually exist, such as the le Ghost of le Kiev.
It would be funny if you kept on having boss fights with the ghost of kilrath or whatever and then you find out at the end that they never existed.
This is literally the plot of Ace Combat 6
I mean people still think cowboys are cool so I'm gonna guess never