Very well respected community members, and what of this:
ball park eta til you have something in the wild?
By Christmas.
The phrase "in the wild" means only one thing. Is IOTA in the wild? No.
And there are more.
Yes the project should be made as good as possible.
No, the release time dates were not accurate .
What can I say? Somebody screwed up I guess?
I can't recall what went wrong after the community had decided to go with a better front-end than my "50 shades of grey" version... Maybe absence of the front-end is the only thing that slowed down the beta version ("in the wild" part)?