My grandfather was a tailor, and one day a client came in asking for the status of his suit getting clean. My dad as a kid grabbed the unfinished suit and showed the man, who was frustrated at the lack of progress.

My grandpa told my dad never to show a client a work in progress - You told them when you'd get the work done, and they can see the finished result when it's ready.

It's just a story so don't wrap yourself around the axle with counter-examples. I think it's fair to say that an open-source project going through a language translation is going to have transitional periods as they shake things out, and criticizing every snapshot as some proof that they're incompetent is useless.