How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[Seraphor]

You're right but 45 days is far too little, quite obvious SE just wants to lock people into a sub, they don't care about vacant plots. Something along the lines of 3 months makes sense.

But that wouldn't serve it's purpose.
Players who stutter sub for the story, play a week for msq once every 3 months and then vanish again, could hold onto a 99% unused plot indefinitely.
The purpose is to free up plots for active players to use.