I agree that things are slow, but instead of getting stuck on the face value of the situation, we should look a little further. The project is being lead by a man with no previous experience with any of the team members. As stated in the recent gamasutra interview, Yoshi-P is still getting to know his team and once he knows what everyone is capable of, stuff will come faster.

In addition, they have to release all content for 4 different regions/languages at once, by themselves. They don't contract out localizations to other companies like Blizzard does, they do it all in-house, this takes more time. Plus, in an even earlier interview, they also said they are taking it easy right now because they are redoing many of the fundamental game mechanics. If they give us an instance right now, or a bunch of NMs, what's the point when they are revamping the combat system? They will have to redesign the content once again to match the new combat system.

Still, all of this considered it is still moving slow, but even on top of all of that you throw the threat of nuclear disaster from a tsunami that destroyed a huge chunk of Northern Japan which while didn't hit Tokyo as hard as it did elsewhere, I am sure FFXIV team members had family members that were directly effected and may have had to take off work to deal with it, or have increased levels of stress/anxiety due to the disaster.

So are things slower than they should be? Yeah, certainly. But all things considered, do you honestly have the right to get pissy about it? I don't think so, give them a break imo.