Yeah, as part of my free podcast audiobook version of Meaningness, I'm constantly asking him for updates, in order to provide a structure in which he'll work on one book at a time and completely finish it. So far it's working out pretty well.
Your post follows a pattern we hear quite often: "I had a lot of problems I overcame them. I'm proud of that. So we should perpetuate problems, in order to have something to overcome and be proud of."
Imagine we are all carrying a ladder, and eventually we have to climb it. You were forced to immediately lean your ladder against whichever wall happened to be nearby. As a result, you now are trying to justify the value of reaching the top of that particular wall. Your life choices were made when you were not yet ready to make good choices, and to avoid admitting that, you redefine "good" to mean whatever you ended up with.
Consider a reasonably-popular, useful software package. At first, one might just toy around with it without sufficiently reading the documentation. Before long, one will learn to use it correctly, but not before getting a lot of error messages. That does not mean the software is impossible to use.
Lojban is similar, except that the only place you get error messages in Lojban is from other users. What you are seeing is a symptom of how active the Lojban community is, especially since being featured in an xkcd comic. Many newbies are attempting it before learning it. You are seeing a process of welcoming and educating newcomers that has become the norm in our community.
Consider the hypothetical software package again. You may wish to do something weird with it that is at the edges of its scope. You may need to make a feature request, or report flaky performance at a level for which the software is rarely used.
That is what you are seeing as well. Our debugging committee, the BPFK, is hashing out a lot of edge cases. However, these edge cases are tangential to the day-to-day usage of almost anyone, which is bug-free.
Although a few people want a Universal Language, the Logical Language Group which administers the Lojban language standard has never sought that as the purpose of Lojban. It is a thought experiment.
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