Rakudo's spent half of its life thinking about switching away from the one platform where it runs at all to another platform which may or may not even work out. I wanted to deploy Perl 6 to actual paying customers.
I'm sure the developers are having fun, but from the potential user point of view, it's a waste of my time to worry about when the software will actually reach a deployable state. The project's history suggests that's not a priority.