Forgive me if I'm taking this the wrong way or repeating arguments. But..

"Developers should plan for unprecedented global disasters (that are not over BTW) so we can play the game we like more." feels.. entitled.

Sure it'd be nice if they weren't trying to have big fancy patches and could instead release stuff slowly for us to do...

But that was really not the example to use.

Not only are we getting the revamp to ARR we've been asking for forever.. we're getting a bunch of other reworks and conveniences, mostly interlinked. It's possible the systems had to be dropped as a whole.

Yes more content would be nice, yes they could plan for minor delays and inconveniences. This was not one of them.