Alot of Headpats headaches are self proposed. Bro told the people in December that it would be out on January. Always saying its nearly done when it isn't. The backlash is very much earned.
Even more, after the rough release of act two, I can vaguely remember a smaller, but more frequent update regime being planned for. Which never happened. So yeah, a real architect of his own demise kinda thing.
I also proposed several times to him to just post plain numbers on how much art is done/missing/needs adjusting on a regular basis, as that seemed to be the main delaying factor. It would also help set decent release expectations. All of which got seemingly ignored. I'm sure they are all decent people, but understanding can only be stretched so much