If, as the interview states, Aspect were originally aiming to ship in June, and have been given an extra 5 months for clean up by the publisher so that they release for the holiday season, then none, and I mean none, of these ideas are going to have any effect. They'll have to be going into serious test mode with 3 months or so; if feature set is still changing then they won't make their deadline.
We're just a bunch of enthusiasts talking about what we would like in a perfect sim, the same way we have been for the last 15 years. We're certainly not achieving anything or moving towards anything.
Rob