Agree on the mixed feelings.
We were told that the dev team wanted to play other games (completely fine) but to be honest I would rather them to delay dawntrail for two months with argument they want to work on it, rather than two weeks because they want to play erderu ringo dee-err-cee.
new music? yes, BUT: things go bad? play ascian theme.
graphical update? yes, BUT: despite dozens of threads between and after both benchmark tools, some characters are still having visible texture issues.
new race? yes, BUT: rig issues.
new beautiful zone? yes, BUT: spoiler. can't go back.
and many such cases.
I would try to write list of examples but am not convinced anyone will bother. The development process already moved onto new patch so we can expect maybe some trial/raid related bug fixes and that's it.