It's kinda like March Madness or the Hockey season. It would have been better to cancel the release date on April 11th when they identified the issue instead of waiting until the the day of release to tell everyone "Oh, we still have problems."
I appreciate all the work and everything the developers do, so please don't take this as a criticism, but it's a lot easier to rip the Band Aid off early, instead of hoping it will fall off on it's own.