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In my opinion, he did bring us the ideas. He compiled all his studies and published "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" in 1865. The world just wasn't ready yet to hear what he had to say.
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But nobody took the paper seriously.
Ideas alone are worth nothing if you can't convince other people.
This is similar to some college student today writing a bachelor thesis that contains some extremly important insight.
Twenty years later someone else who does a lot of research discovers the same thing and convinces the world that the ideas are right.
The college student didn't change the world. The person who discovered the ideas later but convinced the world changed it.
But the college student would still get the academic credit for the discovery.