But the "fact" is that most of us are really in a bind for something or other and wondering When God when, why God why, how God how?"
I would expect God is still stretching us to be patient at all costs. Abraham waited 20 years for a promise. Noah felt like a fool building an ark in the desert while in never rained and he preached for 120 years without a single convert. Hebrews 11 gives many suggestions to unfulfilled promises in entire lifetimes...but that the promises came to another generation...
Maybe dirty laundry plays a part? I have not earned my white linen yet, have you? Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
In the meantime all my tears are kept in a bottle...what more can be said?