I hope I don't get all kinds of rotten tomatoes thrown at me, but I actually like the percentage progress bars! I know they're only a very rough estimate of when somethings going to come out - but at least it's something.
I think it's also a bit of a reward system for the developers. I'm sure nothing feels better than bumping up the percentage of a project after pouring several hours into it. So the developer feels some amount of happiness as a project gets nearer to the end and we, the customers, feel happier to know that progress is being made.
I think if a more complicated system was used, then it wouldn't feel very rewarding to the developers as it might require too much of their time to keep it accurately up to date. And the more complex something is to update, the less likely a developer will want to use it. And besides, do we really need to know in exact detail how far a project has come along?
Well, I know I don't. . . But I also know I've got more than enough to work on in the mean-time as I go through all the sets I've bought! So perhaps I'm not watching the progress of things as keenly as some other folks.
