Save it - let us vote for a flashback mix league

There really isn't any urgency in delivering 0.2 in any time. We had 2 months without a major update, we can wait one or two weeks longer.

What you can do however: Just make a poll with the most recent PoE 1 leagues that you could throw into a mix for a gap-closer league. I assume not every mechanic is possible, but just give us some that are easy for you to throw together. Stuff like Crucible and Sentinel for example. Make a post, asking players to vote for a week, take like the top 3 of them, then give us a date on which you could release that.

There is absolutely no way every single individual dev is absolutely needed full time for the 0.2 release. Dedicate a miniscule amount of resources to give us some crazy combination + economy reset to save some of the good graces and let us know that you do care. We are starving for PoE 1.

I would totally go all in for another insane weapon tree even though cruicible wasn*t the best designed league ever, heck yeah. Gap closer, excuse league, poe1 challenge time filler when? You giotta have 2-3 spare people that can wing it GG cmon...