While he regroups and goes over his possible mistakes
he will come out a wiser,more thoughtful,mature, rocket builder.I see this as a growing time.

He has given too much of his life to this enterprise to stop now,a year or two or three,to rethink,shure,,,,,,it is all over?,,,
Never Happen.

Armadillo has a place in history,and it is not all written yet.

He and his family simply chose not to continue with a 1,000,000+ a year hobby for the time being.

You can go back to reading your science fiction.

One of the solutions to the Fermi Paradox – the fact that the Milky Way probably contains millions of worlds where intelligent life has evolved, many much older than Earth and therefore in a position to develop interstellar travel, but that we see no evidence of any such cultures – is that at a certain point, the cost and ease of development of virtual worlds is so much less than exploring actual ones that intelligent species simply give up and retreat into a Matrix-like environment. So they never get off the ground, so to speak. Their fantasy worlds become too compelling.

Seems like John Camrack has admitted that this is so in his case.

Just a thought…