About the weather problem, I think that it is more about stalling than a true technical problem. It is typically a thing that a studio can say because they do no want or cant allocate resources on a specific task
It can be for many reason: leadership direction, resources availability, knowledge lost with turnover, etc.

It is a polite and respectful way for a classic stonewall

And again it is easily understandable when we know the amount of work to create, fix and update a game of this scope

EDIT: the thing to do is to keep being loud on the forum (but respectful) and hope that housing will be on the top of their priority list