This deserved a new thread in my opinion. Recently Nick has shared what he and friends will do, but he didn't say when they will do it, nope. They also didn't say when they came up with the idea. Might be that the new missions were planned right after 7-1+ was released. Same for the T3 Boss and Vanaduke. Why am I saying this? Look at the Tortodrone. It was promised to be returning ages ago, and now slowly begins to reappear... I expect it in several months because of this speed. Heck, it might even be OOO's christmas gift... in 2014.
TL;DR The features Nick spoke of could of have been on their to-do list for ages, but were published just now.
If you can do it faster for us, by all means go ahead.