Geoloqi was a dedicated SimpleGeo customer, and when we heard SimpleGeo would be shutting down their service, we had to build our own to replace what would be shut down. We figured others might also have the same issue, so offered a simple importer.
As for pricing: there's more to putting pricing up on a website. We have to calculate our own people and server costs, as well as build and integrate a billing system into the site. In addition, developers need a way of knowing how many API calls they've used, and a way to pay for the service.
In conclusion, simply putting pricing up and then having to change it later because we rushed to put it up in the first place would be worse than just waiting until the date we planned on releasing the site. I hope this makes sense, and we really appreciate your comments and concerns.