Can you please elaborate? There are to less ToT updates I can remember.
From my memories it is just a constant dropping of an unfixed faucet and you suddenly go to the kitchen and see a full glass of water.
Old players go calm, but an inflow of new excited players keeps the delay going.
At times, the silence spreads everywhere alike, everyone stops talking, no new players enter, patrons go cold, and that is when some update drops (for example Claus Update).
I will have to upload several more calculations which I didn't take screenshots of to elaborate further, because as you see, the graph is slightly exponential, hence as we go further, even small number of new patrons, or something similar can cause large delays.