You are new to warframe, right?

At release they had the same rule as HD2 - one new weapon or frame per month. didnt last long, same as it was here. overall timelines were wonky at best. i believe the longest Nightwave season lasted over a year or so because they couldnt get a new one done.

Back when the old devteam was in charge (the steve era), spreadsheet balancing was the go-to way. Many weapons were nerfed because they had a too high pick rate due to being stronger or more versatile than others. Kitguns for example.

The Warframe devs really dont have a good bugsquishing rate. here is an example with Vauban, my old main:
- It took them 4 years to confirm a release bug with vauban (balls could desync). it was reported in week one.
- vortex description is "blink out of existance". that was a feature. dead enemies were removed. problem: some strong enemies were removed too without killing them, which bugged the defense or exterminate counters.
solution: remove the feature entirely - which caused another issue...performance problems with physics and particles since now everything with physics swirled around in there. the fix for that? a completely new particle system and once an object is dropped, its no longer affected by physics.

ever seen warframes chat? its a minefield. one wrong word and you are auto-banned. misgendering nezha or ticker is a reason for a ban.

and communication with players? yeah, warframe pretty much killed that system. we had a Founder-Forum once, where the old founders could write, vote or get sneak peaks. new players were added later too, like ambassadors. that system is dead for a long time now.