In previous updates the problem was that the statuses said practically nothing, every week the status update says: "Hello, we are making great progress and everything is going perfectly", that is why the progress bars were chosen to obtain more details but if you don't know using them in my opinion is worse. Using the bars to estimate should be (in the case of the render bar): "We have to make 8 scenes for this 0.6, okay, every time we finish a scene, we increase the render bar by 12.5%."
In the public's dream, the ideal would be for them to know the number of renders they have to do before starting, but I find that very difficult, especially because developers always add extra scenes.
If estimating progress is not your strong point, you should go back to the previous formula, otherwise people are going to complain about a 1% progress or now a 0.1% progress, because in 4 months 90% of the renders were made and the missing 10% is taking longer than the 5 minutes for namek (Namekku-sei) to explode.
We must also not forget that this update was going to be shorter and arrive in less time, never say that again if you cannot fulfill it, because you are giving the opportunity to complaints