Something I've experienced as a developer is that at crucial moments, the need to carefully communicate what you are doing can detract from the doing of the thing. Every moment not spent polishing an update to us is a moment spent polishing the game. Obviously, there is a careful balance needed for managing this tradeoff.
The update will come, probably with something that is in the final phase of readiness/tidying up included. Some alphas/betas don't have comms from the devs for many months at a time so I would say we are getting a very privileged experience here.