[nacs]

That's the point OP is making -- that people early on will be nay-sayers (like in the 2005 post) that then turns out to be false.

[iainmerrick]

Ah, I see, thanks!

I still think the questions are perfectly reasonable. But maybe it just needs to be phrased as “how do they plan to address these?” rather than “which ones have they solved?”

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> that then turns out to be false.

That then turned out to become increasingly false over time. Buying the early stage product is a risky bet, you hope it will take off like that, but it might not. They do need a plan to address them, and to be trustworthy.