Is SE's Marketing / PR department -severely- hurting the games chances of success?

[TheRac25]

Real talk: it would be a huge mistake to try to get more people on board with development going by so slowly. This is something that basically needs to be kept low profile until they can start pumping out good updates at a decent speed. This is almost as bad as Aion NA's updates.

I just cant understand what is taking so long, they are either severely understaffed or got their heads so far up their bums it will never come out. i dont think the problem was/is tanaka or yoshi, seems the problem is higher up in the company or company wide.

Edit: some signs do point to understaffing, even before release (copy pasted maps, saying they brining in more developers working on different projects, hiring of a chinese developer house, etc).