he looses a lot of time reworking character, it's supposed to make all futures update faster .
Ah you got me there I did completely skip over the character reworks. However I still don't believe they would take up that large amount of time, I would also argue they are completely pointless and the old ones looked better. That's just my opinion however. Him redrawing those pictures wont make the updates come out faster though, that's the code.
It seems like out of everyone Cookie did the least out of everyone out of this update. The re-working of the code is understandable how long it took considering he had to do it as one man job this update, and in a lot of cases it's harder to rewrite bad code then write new code. I don't feel like animations constitute a extra 2 months, and I'm pretty sure the animations are Catbugs job anyway.
I really do hope the updates start coming out sooner and with more content lie they've said. THis was a bit of a let down, but maybe I just over-hyped myself.