Why didn't Dammed bother to say anything about a delay until now? The "final" progress report was in March. They're well behind with or without Alorth's vacation. All that post says is they didn't do anything for a month...while not pausing payments.
I'm not saying Alorth didn't go on vacation or his laptop didn't work, but that's not a reason to not say anything about it until now and continue to take payments while nothing is being done.
Also, the gap between this wallpaper and May's wallpaper is about 5.5 weeks. Which is 2 weeks longer than Alorth's vacation, they've had plenty of time to make up for the delay and to inform their fans.
It makes me wonder how many times this type of thing has happened and they didn't say anything.