I think we need to learn how to have patience. The developers told us from the bigenning that they will work on their own pace and nothing will be rushed out. So I don't have any problem with the timer I think you should have learnt all this by MTGox. We all now that MTGox is biggest exchange and to get big you have to think even bigger.
Or they could simply inform people on what is going on and don't setup timers if they don't know when it will be ready ... you know timers are for specific reason, and it isn't to show approximate month
Being bad simply because some other guy is bad, doesn't make it right