There are forty four “collected issues”; so triple that. 
Add to that some amount of the 217 reported issues, plus a ton of minor issues only each developer knows about and fixes in his or her spare time. 
There is, and has been, a substantial pool of bug fixes for Steinberg to prioritize.
It’s hard to imagine we won’t see a minor update before they break for the holidays.
I don’t think we’ll see v8 until the new year, because the things that are likely on their plate are (hopefully) very ambitious.
Like, batch freeze/unfreeze (I hope) and maybe even Studio One style edit-ablity of frozen tracks (I really hope). I bet we see a revamp of the insert section of the mixer console, too.
And the old Windows MDI getting replaced by a lovely new docking / windowing system. That’s gotta happen soon, right.
This is all 100% speculation and wishful thinking.