But after all these years and taking peoples money,
See that's where you're incorrect. They haven't taken a dime of anyone's money until they have actually shipped the dash to the customer. All that they have right now is a long waiting list.
Yes that indicates a need but they won't see that until they can produce an actual product. And I wonder how many people on that waiting list have actually decided to stop waiting and just repair their dash themselves OR send it out to a pro to have them do it.
And a thing to remember - these repop dashes are only coming in black. It's the only color they've listed for years. So for those of us with different color interiors, we have to decide if its worth trying to dye/paint a black part to match the rest of our interior. I can say from experience on the Y88 that IF I had known how badly my repop sail panels would be chewed up, I wouldn't have purchased them and instead pursued a set of original GM parts that were already camel tan and just needed a coat of dye/paint to refinish. I will say for the 80 Firebird that any panel that needs to be replaced will have an original GM part in its place - interior is red.
IF they were to come out with other colors, I think I'd consider one. For now, I'll just repair the dash in the 80 after having spent $770 on Just Dashes to do the Y88 (that was a few years back and I've heard the price is now over $1k to do a dash).