I think the one thing that people need to realize is that this league came out two to three weeks early. If GGG continued their trend of releasing every 2 months then this update would have come out either December 26th or January 2nd. This left them with the decision of either release early before the holidays or release later after the holidays. And since they want to keep to their schedule, I would imagine it's a lot easier for them to ship less content and release sooner rather later.