No, I don’t think it changed.
Soon after release - when the servers and game are stable. Was the jist of it.
So they said “soon” and then qualified that with a fairly concrete idea of what conditions have to be met first.
I would not say we are ready for Ladder, although the crashing is better than it was, the rollbacks stopped, the total server crashes stopped, the delete char button got improved, and the queues are going down.
Lobby needs to be improved and the bugs with reporting/blocking not muting would be nice to fix.
Until they get this Database thing fixed though a ladder is not realistic. I can’t imagine how angry people would be with real ladder stuck in a queue - and you KNOW the servers will get crushed again for ladder release.