No. I just read all the forums, watch the YouTube streams, the interviews, the Q&A sessions. Jorge was quite clear in the one session, Asobo is getting off end of December, no ifs ands or buts. They have pushed really hard all year long, and they need time off or risk burn out.
As for me, I’m a senior programmer and project and technical lead for a retail chain. We have holiday freezes. Last thing you want to do is adversely effect the corporation and slow down a store during its busiest time. So with that comes the determination “this one can cause critical issues”, “this one has a work around”, “this one isn’t ideal but the users can live with it”, “this one has to go in for state compliance” type evaluation of what will go into the final builds before the holiday freeze.
Any bug that effects a user, they are very invested in. I’m just trying to level set expectations so that the forums know what to expect and why. Otherwise sentiment builds up and becomes an avalance.