This was a dispiriting reply if you expected significant new content. Duh's tone was defensive "it's not urgent", "too many challenges", which tells us that TW still works in a crisis mode where there are always urgent things to do and fix, as opposed to a polishing pre-release mode with developers trying to improve features. It could be a sign of poor morale and burnout too, not strange after the long development and negative feedback on this forum.
The good thing is that it sets the expectations for the Bannerlord release suitably low. It's better to be disappointed now than later.
The conclusion is that the sooner TW finishes their unambitious version of Bannerlord, the sooner the modders could start "finishing" it with widely expected features as in the OP.