people are down right pathetic...

First SE is a company, not a person: a company shouldn't need a vacation. They should be able to allow staff vacations without the product stopping. When the entire project has to stop or have massive delays because of vacation, then that's just bad management, period.

second: the time between patches has increased by 45%.

Arr release 08/27/2013
Patch 2.1 Notes 12/14/2013 15 weeks later
Patch 2.2 Notes 03/26/2014 15 weeks later
Patch 2.3 Notes 07/07/2014 16 weeks later
Patch 2.4 Notes 10/27/2014 16 weeks later
Patch 2.5 Notes 01/19/2015 12 weeks later

Patch 3.0 Notes 06/19/2015 21 weeks later
Patch 3.1 est 11/10/2015 20 weeks later

Arr avg: 14.8 weeks between updates
HW avg: 20.5 weeks later...

Bottom line: If we are to believe that vacations are the reason for the delay, then by the math we will get 15 weeks worth of content for a 20 week delay. flat 25% loss on investment.

Since we still pay the same per month, we are getting 25% less content for our money.
and half the people want to pat them on the head and say good yoshi...