I'll risk being called a fangirl and just say it:
What exactly do we want to ask they actually can answer?
Most things we want to know about, we already got an answer to:
Either "We are working on it." or "We'll think about it."
While this may sound like an excuse and running away from the question, not really giving us the feeling they really are working on it and not giving us a fixed date of release either, it actually answers the question.

I know people are getting impatient, but there's just no way to clearly say when something which takes a lot of programming/balancing/etc. will be ready for release.
So there are two ways to approach this: Either give the players some certain date to make them shut up, but get all of their rage when you are not able to stick to the date you set, or give the players no fixed date at all, let them keep ranting about how they and their wishes are ignored by you and without further notice, give them some nice updates they waited for. While I can't say I prefer any of these, it's obvious Yoshi-P's team decided to stick with the second version.
Meaning they won't tell us when something will be released or how it will be like.
So asking about it is pointless. But they still squeeze in some time for player's questions so we don't feel neglected, although they won't tell us fixed release dates or changes they may be planning, to not disappoint us if they are not able to live up to the expectations or finish the changes in time.