I'm visiting the forum every few months to check on progress. It's definitely there, but not how everyone expected. To be fair, I expected to get access by end of August or beginning of September. But the way it's still uncertain how many more months to add to the queue isn't helping.
Wouldn't it make sense to give the old owners and supporters of LiF:YO their access now? I imagine the population in server tests is pretty low by now, so some additional players might even help. Plus late summer/fall 2017 was supposed to be our entry date, if I'm not mistaken.
Most of all, I don't see the reason, why to keep us out of the game at this late point anyway. Is it the organisational effort? If the MMO is working good enough we might as well play it and add to the experience. And then restart together after the beta-wipe. It would be much nicer for everyone than just waiting all this time