Honestly, I think the January date is still fine (speaking personally, I guess), but the overriding problem lately has been with trying to run events that are just too ambitious for what the mods seem to have the time or energy to keep up with. There have been plenty of fun and engaging events that have gotten the entire community motivated that really didn't seem to require a whole lot of mod work past the initial processing of sign-ups and such, like the past few years' Christmas events. I think if whatever events were to happen between now and a January end date could run more like those, that would eliminate a good half or more of the player frustration by itself.