I don't see how that matters? It's a treadmill. Sure Fable-v1 will be obsolete but the shiny new Fable-v2 won't. Don't view their shenanigans as regarding Fable but rather their current cutting edge model.

They clearly didn't have the compute capacity ready to release Fable at any price that would have seemed "worth it".

Mythos was first publicly known via a leak at the end of March, 2026. Given that Fable is the public version of Mythos, six months gets us September for when the next big leap will happen.