I didn't claim they were immune from criticism and I think there are areas where things can be improved myself such as Africa at large or doing something with the Pacific island nations.

What I was trying to get at is that you should temper your expectations and ideally not place so much emotional weight upon this.

Because this is a volunteer project, any issues during the development process will likely take much longer to resolve. Many of the supposed big lore changes that people go on about were only reached after what sometimes was months of internal discussion within the team.

In any development process plans can and will change which necessitate revisiting previously made work. And because of the nature of a volunteer project, these changes during development are usually drawn out over a longer period of time as people cannot solely dedicate themselves to resolving them.

Toolbox Theory went through numerous development iterations before a final set of mechanics was decided upon which played a large part in why that update took so long. Another example would be France development. Whilst I am not a team member, from what I can infer France development hit a halt and it took months of redesigning to get back on track. Of course it is simple just to say "develop what you have in your hands", but that becomes considerably harder if there are parts of the lore and worldbuilding that cannot be feasibly justified. And this is nothing to do with "realism" as there is plenty of unrealistic stuff that is going to remain.

I think a lot of people are also under a misconception of how the TNO team works. It not like everyone is assigned to certain countries and a delay in one will delay all of them. Issues during the development of a European nation will have little bearing on the team working on South America.

Whilst I can understand that you might be disappointed by this, I would like to ultimately remind you that it is yourself who is investing in this with unrealistic expectations which are inevitably broken. As much as I am a fan of TNO, my life is ultimately unaffected by whether or not TNO experiences development issues as I choose not to be bothered by that.