"The current recruitment rate is the current recruitment rate,...

"The current recruitment rate is the current recruitment rate, there's no getting away from that fact"

That's only for people like you who formulate their strategies via the rear-view mirror. Sensible people use all available evidence - in announcements, interviews and presentations - to forecast scenarios based on statements/clues provided. You would have to be stupid to think that last years recruitment rate is going to be the same going forward with multiple sites opening in 6 additional countries and the age of recruitees reduced to 12 years.

I am not your research assistant but if you make the effort to do your own you will find that, on average, phase 3 trials that pass futility assessments are more than 50% likely to meet their final endpoints.