I hope you are right, but I don't think you are.  Here is why.

They extended the deadline twice.  Why? Is the system a month later still that unstable? Have two more weeks really made that much difference?  Elite is basicaly running the same aas it was about a week to ten days post launch.  Nothing new the same issues with broken links, and things generally not there.  There have been no updates since the first of the month and that one just states we are extending founder status, AGAIN. 

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they said hey we are going to give our Christmas people a chance to be a founder and extend it til the first of the year. I seriously do not know what is the hold up.  A server crash at launch is not going to destroy the stuff you have in place.  That tells me stuff like the clan level ups and competitions and all the other stuff that doesn't work was never in place,  and they are having to develop and test it before they can turn it loose.  ELITE is an UNFINISHED PRODUCT no ifs, ands, or buts about it, and I think they would have a hard time convicing most people that use it other wise.

They completely and totaly f'd up ELITE and it's a shame cause it has so much potential.