Great point! This is one my main concerns with this staggered development.We are looking at you UI team ʕ; •`ᴥ•´ʔ
Overall i had the impression that they already are doing staggered development, maybe not to that extent.
I guess what people have been missing is not an explanation about staggered development. One might get the impression that they thought "lol delays, lets take a random argument to chill people".
Pretty sure no one thinks SD will speed things up, actually people are concerned that giving teams more time to polish stuff will slow things down. Also its an statement to stuff they claimed before (simplified) "early backer feedback is important for the development process".
So you need to add that after the pizza has been served to the costumer he provides feedback to the pizza and returns it if he doesn't like it and gets another free pizza.
We used to see stuff after roughly 3 months in the making, and could give feedback. If it was crap the way they did it, like hover mode just now, the only wasted 3 months on a half assed implementation. Now what will happen after 6 months? Wi they just go back and spend another 3-6 month redesignin the feature, or are they so confident that they think it will always be good enough and just roll with whatever they made, even if we don't like it at all?
Tldr.: this will delay the feedback cycle significantly , will they just ignore us from now on, or waste even more time and money?