Now you are arguing that OP should have pivoted to something new under the assumption that he had an idea of how to so pivot. That's fine, but it is not a defense of the point you originally made and instead agrees with my counterargument.
Again... there's probably more going on that wasn't posted - I was reacting to what was posted, and trying to suggest there may be better ways to phrase what was said.
The funding you get from VCs comes from Grandma's pension fund.
You think it's better to burn millions from the pensions of Grandma and her friends to sink into a losing business?
Just to keep a few of us engineers employed for another year before the inevitable failure?
Screw the engineers.
And let them look for better, non-dead-end jobs earlier.