No, this is BS. People only bought into pathfinder because it seemed like not a lot of time. If they were told point blank that it is going to be 8 months, the rage threads that made Blizzard reconsider their position on flying would have simply continued. People were NOT fine with pathfinder not showing up in 6.1.
Again, you are desperately looking for ways to twist things, nothing more.
You choose your conclusion and then try to bend everything else to follow it. This is completely uninteresting.