Actually those "news" are not that bad - the issue was related to the hard-fork which has been postponed now and a new ETA will be available soon (most likely there'll be more information released today).
I think it's bad news, because every delay on the road map is a bad news. And ethereum is delaying everything for a long time. This is certainly bad for investors.
POS was supposed to be on already, or at least there should be a prevision about the launching date of Casper or Constantinople at least