[tetris11]

I read it more as jeering at private companies who promise the world and deliver a fraction of the product with price-gouging tactics.

Somewhere in there is an innovation that might do a public good, but most people are realising that corporations don't do public good. They do what they want.

If it was a government entity that tried and failed to reach for the stars, I think there'd be jeering too ("there go my tax dollars") but a large portion of the scientific community would be happy with the result.