If anyone else than @howo and @eonwarped had been doing testing, then we might have been in a place now where it would be responsible to launch the next hard fork.

But as it is, we still have some chain-brekaing bugs that have not been fixed, and no way to know for sure if there are many more potential problems, as the complexity and sheer number of weird actions people can try to do is so large.

So if you want faster progress, then demand witnesses you vote for to participate in testing.