@Clavius:
Uhh... because the lock is broken?
Are you telling us Ricoh bought Pentax, formed Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company and merged their own camera division into it just to let them die? Come on... one doesn't need inside info to know things are doing in the opposite direction of "closing the doors". It helps with being more confident, though... probably
What we saw at Photokina were the last "twitches" of the Hoya era; that's all they could do, in such a short time, without rushing out some incomplete products (which I'd say would be much, much worse than having solid yet not really "cutting edge" products like the K-5 IIs).
But even that is actually a good sign; they launched the new HD coating, the long lens Hoya cancelled, the TC Hoya cancelled, the only stabilized medium format solution... and of course, we have the lens-rich roadmaps (no delay, so far), we have public declarations, interviews more optimistic than anytime. Are those signs of a dying company? I don't think so.
By the way, what you're doing is starving Pentax from funds required to develop the new toys; you're not helping them at all