Never underestimate the danger of false hope.
You are correct, but what is false hope, and what is a negative attitude that becomes self-fulfilling.
About 1800 the head of the US patent office offered to resign. He thought all the important things had already been invented.
The reason for my initial comment was that it appeared (to me) that someone was figuring it would not make it to the market (for 20 years) because the drug companies would not get the profits from this type of "cure".
The drug companies have to spend billions to get new drugs to the market. So... their focus is on profits. Those profits are responsible for almost all of the medical progress over the last 100 years. I want the focus to stay on profits. If anything is going to delay the "cure", (remember we do not know if it is a cure yet), that delay will be caused almost entirely by governmental regulation and legal liability concerns. it will cost many millions to test the "cure", determine proper dosage, etc.
If even one person has an adverse reaction, the drug companies will be liable for huge damages and government inspectors will swoop down on the company financing the clinical trials.
The newspapers will run articles about the research which is inspired by profits. A lot of silly people will complain to their legislators to punish the evil drug companies.
At that point the heroic socialist senators will pass more laws making it more expensive and even slower to get any drug to the market. Again all the blame will be put on the drug companies.
Without governmental regulations and legal liability concerns the scientists could start injecting people today.