There were never any spin tactics. I can not give an ETA if there is none. Talking to a producer was not going to instantly create an ETA, and I never suggested otherwise.
If support had ended for the EE I would have said so. The first console patch was released in January, and the second mid March.
Nobody is laughing anything off. Name an RPG, or similarly complex software of any kind, that has zero bugs and nobody has had any problems with.
So what programs does your cousin write, that don't have any known issues? Are they as complex as an RPG? Does he have to go through two other companies in order to release updates? Has he never had a bug reported that he could not reproduce? No time or resource management constraints, no difficult to track down issues, etc?
Should I ascribe malicious intent to his comments, never having communicated with him?