Yeah what really frustrates me isnt simply that the update has been (repeatedly) delayed, its more that the communication throughout this whole fiasco has been almost schizophrenic, sometimes we're told the update is "nearly done" other times they seemingly have no idea. Though they have had their hiccups throughout the development of FET in general MITY has been pretty good at releasing quality updates in a relatively timely manner, so its confusing and disappointing to see them flounder around so much.
Im glad they finally decided to pause their patreon but I think its a little late, they should have done this last month at the very least. I dont think it was their intent but the fact that they basically said "people are giving us too much money and that puts a lot of pressure on us
" was a little odd.
Unfortunately a lot of their patrons are still going to be (in my opinion) way too forgiving because the majority of people are still under the mindset that since pledging is voluntary you forfeit all rights to raise any objections to how creators do things, at least until you give them money.
If you look at all thats happened and still decide that you want to support them then I totally understand, its your money. But people have got to at least acknowledge this is not what should be expected of a team that usually is good about all this. I want to support them more in the future but I want to see some progress being made in making sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again, and at this point text posts saying "we promise" aren't going to cut it. That might sound harsh but since the last update every post they've made has turned out to have false predictions/deadlines.