That is true, and so far they have been very engaging to the community when it comes to huge announcements. You can see it on Twitter and TG too. Things are better delayed than rushed, especially if the release is already robust enough to withstand possible exploits by bad actors out there. Shuffle can carry out a good release, and delays may not be what people expect but perhaps it's for the better.
Carefulness will help to build up good plan and I have feeling that Shuffle team are intentionally doing this for their token launch as well as promotion for their users. They don't have to hurry to launch the token and the promotion if everything have yet been ready for an important launch. When they are ready, they will ping us with big news and having a token is an advantage for their business but only if they already tested it well and debug it carefully.
As it's erc20 token it will get listed to uniswap, and because of it, it hopefully catches some whale eyes. And if that happens, i wouldn't be worried on CEXes. They will add it purely because of the volume.
It is how some successful memecoins did like Shiba Inu, PEPE and BONK.
I have high hopes for tokenomics, but as they are still unclear i will keep my feet on the ground and have healthy skeptism. Token itself might as well be generic erc20 token, so it doesn't need complex smart contracts. Least i hope it is, because less is more if tokenomics have been build correctly and % of profits earmarked for buyback is high enough.
Tokenomics is very important to help the token get money from investors. Because bad tokenomics will give a token very grey future and in contrast, a good designed tokenomics will help it avoid inflationary, price loss consequently and investors will feel less risk and have more interested in investment.