I guess the monthly updates he plans to release are what he counts as smaller, since a look at the to-do list on the trello shows how much content he’d want to include if he took his time and released updates every few months or so. The main reason update 1 took this long is cause release was followed by over a week of hotfixes, then vetex went on break/vacation for a few weeks since he’d finally gotten the game out. Personally I think monthly updates (barring smaller patches and hotfixes) is a pretty reasonable schedule, as it gives him time to add a decent amount of content into each update as well as gives most players enough time to actually fully digest/explore the content of the update before having new things introduced to them.
As for bug fixes vet said he plans to release a patch for those shortly, not wait till the next update;
As for the balancing/meta issues I see where you’re coming from, but the balancing team needs time to actually discuss & come up with appropriate adjustment (which is mostly kept track of in this topic) and testers need to test them for a good amount of time as well (though i can’t confirm if this actually happens, I’m not a tester). If balance changes are rushed we’d keep ending up with Pulsar situations over and over again, so I think waiting til more balancing discussion is done can be pretty beneficial overall.