I’d think the lesson here is obvious, but maybe not.

If you thought this project had value, you could’ve contributed to it. You probably still could.

Or, if you think its value is worth $0 (to you), maybe it’s not really that sad (to you).

People are expressing sadness as if there was nothing to be done about it, but, of course, there’s a really straight-forward thing that could’ve been done about it (possibly still could).