I wish SpaceEngineer just released new versions more regularly without crunching a billion features into a single version. Idk if this counts as 'feature creep' but this whole thing with the hype and junk is getting obnoxious, and I bet SpaceEngineer is going to get to 'release' when he decides that Galaxies need more textures, black holes need 3D accretion disks, etc.
Any hype that there might be isn't his fault, we don't do anything to build hype, users cultivate an atmosphere of hype entirely by themselves. All we have done is make factual posts about development progress.
SE absolutely has been a massive victim of feature creep over its development history, but I can say with confidence that there won't be any more of that before 0.990 release, and a lot more effort is going to be put into making smaller, more frequent releases afterwards as well.
One reason the update has taken so long is to make sure SE is the best it can be for commercial purposes. New features need to be added and bugs fixed to make a solid space sim that companies will want to use. This will provide a lot more funding.
This is also very true.