Has ANY synth made by ANY decent manufacturer been released on time EVER?
No.
You can't compare anything to the Virus TI, it will be head and shoulders above any competing synth, you could even say that about the Virus C. Other synths certainly have their place, but in the virtual analog market the Virus is king and the Virus TI will be the best VA synth until the next Virus comes out.
I'd much rather wait until whatever problems they are having are fixed than have a synth with bugs. Any owner of Waldorf synths can attest to that. Not a single one of their synths is bug free. They kept putting off fixing them, chalking it up to having a small design team and that switching between different sets of code for each synth would slow down the entire process because they would have to reacclimate themselves to the code... and what happened in the end? Waldorf made dozens of promises that things would get fixed and then went out of business. Now there are thousands of Waldorf synths and Waldorf synth owners with synths that don't work how they were supposed to.
Wait. It'll be worth it. I'd rather have a perfectly functional synth a year from now than a buggy synth today.
(BTW, I'd like to think the delay is because they are adding Linux support
, I also posted this on another forum, so if you're reading it twice I'm sorry if that offends you...)