The vision is interesting and encapsulates a bit of old and new apple. It's clearly well made and best in class so in some ways they did wait to bring out something, quality, rather than something during the hype.

On the other hand, you can argue that they didn't wait long enough because the tech to really pull off this vision simply wasn't there yet (or is there but is obscenely expensive, which is saying something given this headset was already lambasted for cost). It's marketing (after looking back at some commercials) for what it offers was half "oh this is pretty useful" (a workststion with very little footprint) and half "oh this is black mirror" (lying along on a couch watching movies, interacting with kids as you have a giant headset on you). Maybe it's the nature of thr medium, but Apple tended to do a good job is making it feel like their technology brought people closer. Here the socialization felt hollow.