As long as there are severe bugs like QNAP - Not Showing Local Folders Anymore [See Staff Post - Guest Access Temporarily Resolves - Ongoing Investigation] affecting users for months, it’s unlikely they come up with something new.
As you see in recent days there is a lot of time necessary to do bug fixing and then regression bug fixing.
Very much do hope finally 1.8 along with existing major bugs gets finally fixed or to a state where it’s stable and user friendly.