3 years for 3 weeks. That's progress. Only 49 weeks to go. Could easily be done within 2 decades if they ditch half the planned content.
One of the goals of the merging and streamlining is to make it easier and faster to move forward. With so much time lost in the effort, many doubt that the rewards will be worth it. I don't know the details, but building on kludgey coding would just get more and more cumbersome as time went on, so BlueCat will
have to keep going after the merge to make it all worth it!
For me, I'd definitely like to see more of this game, but I have other games to occupy me. I have a half dozen games in my top tier, games that I play as soon as I see an update. There are a few more in the second tier, the games I go back to.