Harmy said:

Why does the thread need any action, if there's nothing new to discuss concerning its topic?

I think that all of the off-topic discussion in this thread is caused by:

1. Hope that "keeping the thread alive" will keep updates coming from Adywan and/or motivate Adywan to keep going full-speed-ahead.

2. The fact that many users access this forum indirectly via e-mail subscriptions. I can imagine that being subscribed to only one thread would give one a very narrow view of the forum.

Disclaimer: This is just speculation. I neither endorse (1) nor exclusively engage in (2).