Originally posted by Soren:

Future updates have become an contentious topic among the community. Too much asking "are we there yet" and escalating from there. It's gotten to a point where people whip themselves into a frenzy over it. So locking most topics on the subject had to be done for the sake of toxicity within the community.

Instead of addressing the issue head on to quell reasonable fears? This is Iron Gate's problem, not the comments, they need to be more transparent about what they're doing especially after scrubbing previous plans and the roadmap. Two months of silence for an update that was supposed to be out ages ago is not a good sign and there's no getting around that, I'm sorry.