It has been obvious for two years now that mp development isn't going the right way. It was very simple to observe the tempo of changes and realise it's too slow for mp to become enjoyable in any sensible time.
Personally I really really feel for people that quit only recently. You guys knew in your hearts that deciding to stick around had very little chance to end up being worth it. Now here you are, two years of frustrations and nothing but wasted life in return.
For those of you that still decide to stay: with everything you've seen so far, please simulate in your heads the state of the game after 3 years from now, when given the slow pace it would be supposedly finished. What do you think it will be? Warband 2, full of players with 100 mods? Or dead corpse, with no custom servers, skins, badges and other brain junk food and few awkward "competitive" modes?