Ok, so let us stop with the crappy car metaphors and tell is like it is. This is my story:
You backed for a DRM free game on kickstarter than would have a fully offline mode, as confirmed before the kickstarter ended and your money was taken. You wanted a game to replace Elite II, which was a static universe and something you played for years, you wanted something you could play regardless of servers being up or down, and that you could get a boxed copy for to keep forever, alongside the boxed copies of the other games you kept.
You upgraded your pledge after Kickstarter. You bought other things like a t shirt, signed artwork, signed starmap, etc, as well.
You started posting videos of yourself playing ED, answered many questions confirming to others that ED would have a fully offline mode.
You've actively posted all over the place, pulled many of your friends into the game, you have almost 1000 subscribers, most of whom follow you for ED vids, who all that have asked, have been informed of a fully offline but static universe version (which although static, is just like Elite II - was that somehow a bad game because of that?)
After many months, ONE MONTH before release, you are informed that everything you have done since your first decision, the decision based off 1 piece of information, is now incorrect. You've informed people about something that no longer exists. You gave money for a specific thing, something that although the vision of online interaction is great, you didn't want (I'd have been happy with FE2 with a graphics upgrade) it. You wanted what you paid for.