Nah, it's justifiable as fuck.

hen I tried to explain that the game is getting better, especially in 0.61 EXP, people insisted that it's still bad because they played 0.59 six months ago and weren't impressed. Most people can't seem be objective about this game at all, even after you break down the development timeline and explain that DayZ isn't actually in Development Hell and that the devs just made a bad PR move by putting it in EA so early in its development. Someone even said something along the lines of "if 0.61 is so good they should've released it back in 2014" (!?)

I mean, I get what you're saying here. Those are pretty damn good excuses. On the other hand, they're exactly that- excuses for having a games that runs like shit and is still missing major features. Imagine if this game came from ubisoft or EA- the shitstorm would have been 100x bigger.

The problem here is that in reality, everything you said explains the problems with DayZ, it doesn't excuse them. You're just describing how they fucked up instead of giving any real reasons why it's okay.