You acknowledge it because it is a fact, not because you're understanding of the complaints. It's indisputable that the estimated deadline was missed. No one is debating that the size isn't larger than last chapter, sure it can be, but people are complaining about the deadline estimate. Telling people what shouldn't be hard to overlook or that it's "only" a week is just forcing your perception on others. If you claim to get that it's not personally a win for someone, then don't feel the need to rebut their annoyance.It's only a week delay, as i acknowledged, he is running late on the update, but it's only a week. It shouldn't be hard to overlook 1 week. It's not like development time is getting longer without nothing to show for it. CH 12 is going to be twice as big as CH 11 and only 1 extra month of development time. If CH 13 is twice as big again and only 10 months to develop, it's statiscally a win. Every chapters increased development time to content ratio has been a win. Sure, i get it's not a win for you personally because you don't like the jokes and think it's a waste of time, i get that. Content is content though, he isn't just sitting around doing nothing though.
I do agree that the delay isn't that wild, but people can be annoyed about it.