I am unfortunately having the same issue. (Sigh!) was about to list and do product pick for all the new stuff, what an irritating delay.
I would think that LL would want the developers to know if their is an issue seeing as we do provide money for them, isn't it the devs who make the most money fro them considering we need to have stores in world and they make a percentage of our profits from the goods we sell. I cold just give em a swift kick, its sneaky and rude to hide issues. I appreciate straight up blunt honesty and I am sure everyone else would to . I could handle a MP temporary shutdown for maintenance or what not, but to just have it happen with out warning? How skeevie and back handed.
That's just my two cents.