I had a whole big post done but then you changed the title of the thread and I lost it.....

Mini version:.
From what I recall we were led to believe or chose to believe the rest of the game's content was being held back so as not to ruin or reveal the whole game, which turned out to not be exactly true. A lot of the defense against criticism came from this belief. I'd like to point out that negative criticism will ALWAYS be badly received, we would be in a better situation if people could actually word their opinions, ideas and impressions in ways that don't instantly insult someone's sensibility. Mutual respect and a sense of being mindful of other people thoughts and feelings other then ourselves is an art mostly forgotten nowadays.

Another thing, SE was going to release this when they decided they would and no matter what the community said or reported that's when it would happen, they did scramble a bit at the end but the responsible thing to do would have been at least a four to five month delay. I will say that many of the things that people actually mostly aggreed on were not listened to.