the other private servers that say they have 2.0 or 2.5 are just shitty servers at least. the real competitor here is Skelth not other private servers
skelth have less people but a shiny client with 2.5 update and in a year they will have add 3.0 with antharas and goddard region (wall of argos i suppose etc etc)
so that is your true enemy. Skelth, that unfortunately is an official client and gets updates faster.
the only thing we need here is estimates on when we will have things... so to be prepared what to expect. without estimations and just a list with colored to-do's its difficult to stay forever