Those comparings about release times are a little bit difficult to answer, e.g. teamsize, game engine and art style makes a big difference. On some games even a bugfix would be called an update, likewise a small update with only few images can't be compared to a full arc based update.
But back to the initial question: Generally speaking 2d art is more labor intensive than 3dcg e.g. a big scene change would need a full redraw in 2d when you can literally change the scene easy in 3d and send the result to the render PC.
Another thing would be the use of pre-made models and scenes in 3d, a lot of devs are using pre-made models/scenes and modify them slightly), the dev time for updates will increase drastically when they would need to create the model/scene from scratch.
You can notice such things if you look closely at the mentioned games, a lot of models/scenes look very similar.
There would be a lot more to write but you get the drift.
And in case of the very long dev-time for the WAL update please don't forget the IRL-problems the dev's had suffered from.
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