Well I don't think it's "Bad News". I think if they would've gone forward with the update and if failed or had bugs, or ETH was stolen, THEN that would be really bad news. This is a quite normal thing.
Better to delayed than to experience worse things after, it will make some impact especially to those who invested just because they are anticipating some good bounce while the fork is ongoing but in the other hands things didn't work accordingly and delays might let them to sell out and start shorting again, we really don't know what will happen after this delays.