Both good points, and you are certainly deserving of the grace your asking for, after all, what your doing is massive undertaking with the continued progress as well as increasing the team size, but I would also argue something as simple as a twice weekly or even weekly update post simply saying "heya! Here's the exciting news from us" would work wonders.
I'm one of these new but super excited individuals who can't wait to see where this goes, but I'll admit that with the lack of regular updates about going on's I have unintentionally been checking the forums less and less as time goes on. For me at least it would make a huge difference to simply see a "this is happening this week" kinda post, even if an actual software update is a ways away still.
Please don't take this as negative criticism, I'm super excited and just want to keep the community as involved as possible, because I feel that's the best for long term success