Original roadmap had four releases on it. Game got released into EA during a global pandemic. Blew up in popularity beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Number of bug reports made is at least one magnitude above the number that was originally anticipated, due to the aforementioned success. Devs realize that you cannot build a house upon sand, and set about fixing the errors. Still fixing errors, they recently announced that their original timetable is unfortunately not possible, but let us know that they're working on their first release.

Personally, I prefer that to having smoke blown up my you know where, but YMMV.