I just thought of all the times where information about stuff that's going to happen and some of us always get impatient and tired of seeing it and just wanting it to actually happen already. What if this is a part of the strategy of psyching the enemy out?
I know it's gonna sound stupid, but it reminds me of the one Family Guy episode where Brian got beat up by Stewie twice for not having his money. When Stewie offered Brian a free hit, he was going to take it but not tell him when it was coming. Towards the rest of the episode, Stewie was getting more and more scared of the coming hit.
It got to the point where he started beating himself up even. When in the end he had almost forgotten about it, Brian pushed Stewie into a truck at the last second.
It might relate to the Q post of not giving out dates but making the enemy take unplanned and disastrous counter moves.
It happens in the old comic "Fox Trot", the older brother who broke a model lunar lander belonging to the younger is told he'll take vengeance by the end of the day. He of course spends the entire day paranoid hiding from him, missing his date that night as well, only to realize at the end of it all the induced paranoia was the revenge and the younger brother is found just calmly fixing the broken model.