I appreciate that they try. As a user I would never rely on those estimates, but it at least gives you a sense of what's going on and what they are doing. I take that over the more common silence or "we are working on it" any day.
Exactly. We all know not to trust that those estimates are exact, but they are much better than nothing. When they say nothing we don't know if it's half an hour, half a day or half a week.
• We aim to serve fully consistent data within the next 2 hours.
• 45 minutes later. On track for serving fully consistent data within the next 1.5 hours
• 45 minutes later. On track to serve consistent data within the hour.
• One and a half hours later. We estimate they will be caught up in an hour and a half.