doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I was an avid player of FFXI for years. they had to take the servers off-line after the ****shima nuclear reactors were damaged in the quake. while many players were supportive there were still a huge number of Dbags complaining about it, making demands, etc. keep in mind, not only may there not have been power to the offices where they do the work but the employees' homes as well were affected, and some employees may have been injured or killed in the quake and its aftermath. some people just have no regard for anything.
don't get me wrong, this is nowhere near that level of need for a pushback on the timeline. in this case they just want to fix known issues instead of releasing it filled with bugs they would have to put up with us whining about. and the double XP event was and is to allow you to take advantage of the additional rewards with whatever new content is in the patch so they pushed it back so you still can. how much would people be whining if the patch came out with no active double XP event to go with it? seriously, just go hang out on Fleet or home world genchat to get an idea.
no, Devs go ahead and get it as right as you can, I at least will still be here when you are done, and thanks.