Sure there is a vacuum. Short of the devs coming up for oxygen and letting us know anything, we have zero knowledge of the goings on from their side of things. They could be lying about making the game, they could be purposefully withholding the game to watch this community implode, they could have a complete game that they're intentionally delaying to maintain steady income, or an even bigger hypothesis / conspiracy theory; bear with me - they're humans who have to eat, sleep, etc and any issues that did arise during testing are being addressed as soon as able.
It could be any of those things, but we don't know, because when it comes to the inner workings of the dev team, we know jack other than inferences we can make based on prior history, which are flimsy at best. Not every dev team has a code wizard spitting lines of code like f95ers do complaints, not every project goes smoothly from start to finish, and sometimes people spread themselves too thin.
Anyone, please provide me a cogent argument that the devs are operating in bad faith that isn't as flimsy as due dates and progress bars, and I'll jump on the angry train with you, but facepalms only prove you have no counterpoint and are just angry because I don't share your views.