What I can say is that there is weekly meetings between the dev team, and 0.54 has been kicking their ass since early December. They knew early that they were going to struggle but didn't want to delay, then they didn't want to delay too much, and eventually their hand has been forced. When questioned about something in the mod chat, TFG simply relied "one of the many reasons why this release will take so much time".
We're a long way from the UI revamp, and self-adding characters, but I like what I've seen so far.
I'm also currently running an opinion poll to see if folks would prefer slower but more stable releases, or a big delay for one large 'health' patch.
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