As far as I know the biggest setbacks were not really related to the actual rollback itself, but all the secondary issues that arose BECAUSE of the rollback, the actual implementation took a day or two but then several days to get all the exchanges up and running on the new fork and then a week or so of providing community support to everyone then add on the fact that (while granted MUCH less now than when it first happened) all the media relations they had to do because of the rollback. As far as I can tell something with the rollback caused the wallet to go screwy cause it seems to me 1.3.2 was solid and stable for everyone but then starting with 1.3.3 we seem to have gotten a bit shaky I could be completely wrong thats just my opinion. Add to that everything else that has happened (the work stops because of legal issues with Fiat integration, Pat recently experiencing a loss in his family, Dave moving, etc) and it's just all come together to push the Devs further behind schedule then they had anticipated, which is why they no longer release hard Deadlines because the last time they did Doug missed it by a few hrs and trolls came out of the woodwork screaming about VRC being a scam, the Devs dumping and running, and all sorts of other nonsense like that, so they will no longer be giving hard dates to prevent FUD storms like that from happening.
That was extremely informative, so thank you for taking the time to write that.
I can 100% understand the decision to no longer make public declarations as to when certain projects will get done, it's kind of a bummer for those who follow the coins closely enough to not know when something will be done. But yeah, it probably does more damage than good in the big scheme of things.
God damn that MP hack...