Trion and Blizzard didn't release a program full of bugs and devoid of features.
Small dev team? Minecraft was primarily made by ONE man. Notch only hired extra people a few months ago and some of those are working one other projects. BTW, when it was just him, he usually put out a weekly patch.
Xsyon should be getting a patch every week, at least. Going this way is just driving more and more people away as the only progress is promises.