Really, a guy leaves for a few short years and suddenly you go and do another stable build without him? When was this? When did you finally decide after so long saying “Not doing any more stable builds, experimental from now on.”, “OK, one more stable”
I hope by now you realize I have only good things to say about this development.
I still appreciate the mentioning of a hoped for rough estimate (despite it not being called that). I know it’s hard to do because people have a tendency to mentally convert a guesstimate into an ironclad promise, and then get upset when things didn’t happen according to plan.