I can't take anyone seriously that calls SC vaporware at this point. That may have been a valid claim two years, even one year ago but now? Are you serious or just trolling to try and create drama?
They have every right to rattle on about vapourware. Think about who is making this game and the reasons why he had to go through Kickstarter to get back into the gaming industry (and what he wound up delivering to the film industry for all the sacrifices made).
On top of that we get the good old, Old School Auteur angle when their track record in the last decade in a half makes it a good case for their critics to want them to all retire and let new blood on and you can see why people are back talking this game and calling it call bullshit. Until clear, solid results are put forward they have every reason to be wary and a few damn good ones to call this is as yet another disaster in the making.
TBH I didn't start out sceptical, though I wasn't committed to supporting this project in the least because it seemed like it was doing the sensible thing and starting off small building a foundation for a franchise, now it's become an a seemingly all encompassing space simulator and seems to be gathering the same ill aura that haunted Schilling ever since he decided to actually go out and seriously make his MMO a reality: they people behind this lack patience to rebuild their position in the gaming community and are throwing around ever increasingly larger promises to get money make history's greatest MMO (or pseudo-MMO, I got lost in all this line blurring years ago and see no pressing reason to orient myself).
Now you've bought the hype, don't act as if you haven't. Doesn't mean you're not reasonable about this game, but the thing about hype is once you've allowed in in the door and can become increasingly infectious. With that said I can see why you don't like the negativity, but try to go back a few steps and look it before you got so invested and start thinking if it's reasonable to be so dismissive of people's scepticism over something like this riding more on trust and the developers word than anything concrete.
Yeah if you are expecting X-Wing/Tie-Fighter gameplay you may as well bow out now.
The worrying thing is that this undertaking isn't starting out from there.
Now CCP really fucked themselves up in the last few years, but they started out very sensible by focusing on limited goals and slowly building up EVE and it succeeded. Were in in the position of SCs leaders I'd look to that or other evolutionary projects like Mount and Blade and get a dose of patience letting this build up a foundation over years instead of demanding everything from people now and telling them that I'll get back to them with their dream game in a few years, especially in a genre like space sims that is very niche no matter much everyone would love to play them.
They should have started off with a spiritual successor to WC that was tight and focused, worked on sequels with clear improves and a clear direction of where they were ultimately going, then after having proof that they could deliver, then announce something this big.