I have to say that you do have a point, but if you were relying only on the forums to get an answer that's being lazy and only half interested, you could use the chat for it as well whenever you could see wild, and if you couldn't see him, give him a message through someone isn't exactly impossible.
Second of, having the gym team ready is not enough. You need to have gym team planned, gym name planned AND ask someone for the badge or do it yourself. Also, having a gym isn't necessarily connected to having fun, but that's just my opinion, as I don't need to have a gym to do battles and other assorted things.
So yeah, you do have a point, but taking into account the other number of possibilities that you had to state what you wanted instead of ranting only after 2 weeks just shows that you're not that interested after all if you didn't even bother to ask wild personally or send him a message through someone, a lot of things happen on the chat, not just on the forums. Your loss.