Third, no it isn't the same. Nobody opened up development of Universe to the public, and granted full coverage of the initial greenlight meeting, only to cancel it without warning behind closed doors five months later. Nobody ever said that the reception of a trial version of Universe would decide the game's fate and then pulled said trial before it could be received, after specifically asking the target audience to be patient for it following a nonspecific delay.
Oh it's been a year and a half already, get the [tornado fang] over it.
Its the same.
I doubt even half the people who liked the 100,000 strong for Legends 3 thing even followed the devroom or even cared about it.
Not all Mega Man fans are as obsessed with Legends 3 as you are and may have even prefered MMU. While Legends 3 did have a lot more behind it is no good reason to laugh at their effort. Thats just sad.