Their top management including Chris Roberts are delusional.
"Raise over $1Bn from various sources". Does this mean the actual funding is over $1 billion? He helped get as much money from uninformed space sim gamers as possible with macro-transactions for concept ships. Many of these ships are still not in-game. Jones lead the predatory business model to sell dreams and deception to backers. They released fancy scripted trailers to deceive gamers to buy their super buggy, unstable, alpha phase software.
"over 1100 highly skilled and experienced staff in 5 studios across the world". If they are so skilled why has CIG not released 1 finished game yet after 12 years? They hired a lot of inexperienced staff as well.