I wouldn't say I "changed camps", but I'm definitely much more critical of how the team takes advantage of the EA status. I don't think they gave up on the game but they seem to have this weird fetish about only releasing "perfect" patches/changes. First of all, with the amount of threads in the bugs section I have to laugh. Second, EA is exactly the time where you want to release buggy things to experiment, get feedback, involve the community that supported your game before it was finished. You want to tweak mechanics, rollback things that didn't work, etc.

Anyway, my guess is that they'll declare 1.0 after the Mistlands release and call it done.