At this stage, the long, long, LONG delay between releases is having another unforseen negative effect- I'm COMPLETELY forgetting everything that's happened in the game so far. I've forgotten almost all of the characters and most of the plot threads, so when the update FINALLY drops I'm going to be struggling to reacquaint myself with everyone at first. And I didn't even play the game for the first time until last year, long AFTER the last version had released!
And no, I'm NOT going to just replay the entire game over again to refresh myself. Do you have ANY idea how many games I have to play? You have no idea. Not even in your worst nightmares of being buried under an avalanche of backlogs. And the amount of content so far is NOT small. I have no time to replay games I've played through before just to bring myself up to speed before a new update.