Weren't you around when we were waiting a year (over a year? - I don't remember exactly other than it was a very long wait) for the interim results to get published? I'm far from thrilled with the wait but our prior experience with waiting for an article to get published set a benchmark for this to take this long this time around. However many of us might have hoped for it to move faster this time around for whatever reason, IMO nobody should be terribly surprised at how long this has ended up taking given our past experience with getting interim results published.
As soon as it became clear they were going to wait till the publication was nearly at hand we should have known to possibly have this long of a wait. Do you disagree? I was hoping it would not take this long this time around but it has.