If you have a spare 30 minutes there's a pretty interesting article about the history of SC development here:
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/09/23/inside-the-troubled-development-of-star-citizen
My news reader pointed me at this. A very interesting read and fairly balanced, which is uncommon for most Internet Gaming sites which are either evangelical in their praise of SC or decend into indefensible foaming rants.
Kotaku republished something else quite interesting: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/09/26/the-24-year-feud-that-has-dogged-star-citizen
I find the whole Roberts vs Smart thing rather insane to be perfectly honest. Both have managed to achieve something pretty ambitious, just with varying degrees of success.
Time will tell what the end product will look like, regardless - its starting to come together.