I am just coming in to say that I have never seen a company where it's employees hate their management this much. Even Management hates upper management, and upper management hates everyone. Folks are talking about being berated in front of their peers, yelled at, etc. Game systems being about 80% fleshed out then some upper management producer pulls the plug and orders everyone to do a 180, for really, no reason at all. (This is coming from Protoss Link... but I did confirm this with one person that actually works there and is leaving soon)
The development cycle for this game is an absolute mess. Also, Kern sounds about as bad as some other folks I know in the industry. Christ, he may be worse than Jacobs. At least Jacobs was only full of shit to the customers (Bad enough), but as far as I know, didn't create an atmosphere where people were scared to breathe.
Have not been following the game much, but I would suggest anyone working for this company from a development perspective get out of this organization and go find a place you will be valued. As far as the content that is in the game currently from what I have read, I wouldn't expect it to change much with this type of working atmosphere.