Lets go ahead and get em all collected here, I want to be the author of a 3,000 post monster. In the interests of both the whiners and cheerleaders, I will attempt to give a "fair and balanced" TM report and tell both sides.
First- Understand that AH2 is a huge project. Gigantic in fact, even with no new planes or anything. They have to change/update the graphics for every unit in the game (using a new graphics engine), they have to change/update the flight model for every plane in the game (at least I presume that is what they are doing), and they have to change/update the whole user interface for the game. And that doesn't even include the real "meat" of AH2, which will be an entirely different method of gameplay that has to be designed from the ground up. Big project + Small company = Long time. Deal with it.
And just to be fair-
First (again)- It has been over a year since we had any update worth mentioning. Even in that release we got no new planes that stick in my mind as being particularly 'crucial' or even useful. The gameplay has gotten staler than a pizza that has been left out for a week (no pun intended, honest), and with no new 'toys' to play with it makes it seem even more dull. Combined with a complete blackout for months on end as to what the state of the update is, it is easy to 'lose faith'.
As for me, I'm somewhat in the middle. Yea, the gameplay is godawful nowadays, but that is more a function of the population itself than the game. The designer doesn't have a whole lot of control over how a "mmog" is played. And as long as there are a lot of people playing it, the designer is making money. Money = Satisfaction. Maybe AH2 will be the godsend everyone thinks it will be, I don't know. All the new release is going to be is an updated graphics model and the physics model (if I read correctly)- no new gameplay, no new toys. But whether AH2 is a cornucopia of goodness or just same ol' same ol' with more makeup, it is going to take 5 people an awfully long time to get it out the door. So there is no point in getting your panties in a wad over the delays. Or the silence, because it would be foolish for HTC to give things away to their competitors as to what is going to be new in AH2.