Comment by InsidiousWombat

I will nitpick on that, if it was just released as a patch, there wouldn't be a hype to begin with, just point update to apply.

I'm just gonna assume patch was ready for a while and the wait time was just letting big players to update their own stuff before it is available for the public, and at that point it is just making the rest of the internet second class citizens not "worthy" enough to get the update quicker.