The community as a whole needs to learn patience and understand stuff happens. I can only name one other developer in the gaming industry (might be more) that communicates with the community, and provides updates frequently and timely.
In a perfect community, the community would be happy with what they got, appreciate the effort of the developers. Not bust out the pitchforks when something broke, or a soft deadline was busted.
I'm just a peon who doesn't know how ED works behind the doors. With that, my thoughts are that ED should work on a patch schedule. It works for another community, patches come every 13 weeks. That is the heavy stuff, new content kind of stuff if you're not familiar with iRacing. They still have little quick fixes that may roll out from time to time in that 13 week span. I don't know if 13 weeks would work for ED but something might. Now I'll take my opinion and place it somewhere. :thumbup: