The game mode survey is a tool for us to help us understand what players want out of game modes, and really is just exploratory which is why we didn't have a big blog about it. However we hear you on the above.
The Gazette is being published tomorrow and should have some more project updates including some info about when Raids 3 is being released. In regards to our release schedule generally you've raised some excellent points. I think it's important to discuss this on stream with J-mods and to give a bit more insight from our end so will try to do that tomorrow.