Yep, I get the frustration, lucky for me, I can work with changing the ball carrier traits right before the game. Takes less than 5 minutes of my time, so, that isn't a gamebreaker for me, just frustrating. I don't run into the pancakes that much because I call my own plays.
I get the month reference, but the holidays definitely impeded with the title update. I haven't seen Clint on Twitter since New Years Day and Rex mentioned he was flying back to Orlando today.
These people have families and take off around this time of the year besides just the holidays.
And I'm sure MS/Sony people take extended leaves around the holidays as well.
There isn't much one can do with personal vacation/holiday time.