Maybe they're just tired of saying something. because you would always get the same answer from the community anyway. 6-9 months sounds realistic to me for the size of the team. but they probably can't work on it in one piece and communicating every interruption would only delay everything further and wouldn't interest anyone anyway

And if I were a developer of the team and had to listen to some feedback here, I would pay them back the money and ban them from buying the game... if it were possible...