With the speed of bug fixes that ship sailed 12 months ago, more chance of 1.9 accidentally dropping 2 days after the main release because it was still going through the famed internal QA testing and no one raised it at a team meeting.
No point in fixing quest numbers (more notables being around will probably help anyway) if the impact on prosperity for unsolved ones is so drastic. Its an important step forward but would imagine more balancing will be needed hence not trying to do it all at once. Kill off one bugged variable at a time.
or javelins - cheaper!
Looks like you'll have to wait a little longer for those bushes, duh says no patch today.