Because a lot of people don't care about piracy I have plenty of games, i know that rednand would do everything a gateway can do EXEPT PIRACY (like allow me to play pokemon even tho I'm on 4.5-or play monster hunter 4 imported from japan) i don't care about piracy but i care about region free a lot, I also really liked adding homebrew to your homemenu, with rednand their could have been a REAL HOMEBREW channel not a loader that only works when loading a save file and will be patched and no way of updating past whatever firmware is out when ssspwn is released.
then when it was announced that smea would be delaying ssspwn (and region free was already delayed before that) i went crazy to switch my two 3ds for 4.5 3ds and bought a gateway card. I waited for rednand only to be disappointed... then ssspwn gets delayed i couldn't wait any longer. I don't want a gateway i didn't want to pay 70$ so that I can play my 30$ game on my console but it looks like this is going to be the only way to do it while staying on 4.5 (probably the last kernel exploit ever for 3ds) i personally think rednand wasn't released because smea would have to update and work on it every time a new firmware is released and I don't think he wanted to do that.
I know I might sound like an entitled baby i usually hate those people on these forums but its one thing to find an exploit and not release it to the wild, but to continually update your progress and the GREATEST hack for the 3ds that can possibly exist and then after months of waiting only to be told you won't release because it can cause piracy.....on literally the exact same and only firmwares that already support piracy(plus he wouldn't be adding a rom loader a different person would have write one from scratch so no piracy was involved) and don't say well someone would have quickly written a rom loader because their could easily be a rom loader right now if anyone cared enough or was smart enough to make one all the info is their and free to use.
TLDR: I don't pirate(not that anyone will believe me lol) but i like region free and HOMEBREW and would have loved a free solution that didn't require any pirating materials AND could keep me on the latest firmware not worrying about loosing the hack.