Frankly, this game has progressed less in the last year than a game that didn't have an abysmal launch, a change up of management, and an indefinite free to play period would have. It's absurd that so very little has been done in the actual game over the course of almost a year given the degree of reworking they promised. This update is so delayed and so anticipated because its the first real bit of fundamental change and significant <new> content being added.

That being said, I don't think you can fairly say all the various supposed teams are doing nothing/don't exist until you see what gets put out. Its not entirely unreasonable, as others have stated, that they'd take a ground up approach - fix some fundamental issues before adding various bits of flare to a currently broken game world... Painfully slow as these fundamental changes come.