As an indie game dev, I find conversations around:
Am I having Fun? Why is this (game/feature/mechanic) Fun or not Fun? What the frack actually is Fun? Why is that person's Fun not the same as that other person's Fun? ...pretty **** fascinating and there is a lot of digital ink spilt over the concepts and lessons learned over the years by successful and failed games. 

As an indie game dev, I find conversations around:
Am I having Fun? Why is this (game/feature/mechanic) Fun or not Fun? What the frack actually is Fun? Why is that person's Fun not the same as that other person's Fun? ...pretty **** fascinating and there is a lot of digital ink spilt over the concepts and lessons learned over the years by successful and failed games. 

**pewpewpew intensifies**

It always amazes me how so many people write so many words about what, essentially, is adults moving little toy spaceships around a 2D board while saying "pewpewpew".
(and don't lie, even if you don't actually say it, you're definitely thinking it.).
That said, looking at my own post count maybe I should stop talking now.

I feel that you have missed the entire point of how different players want different things from the games that they play, and that the different formats hinder/help those different aspects,
Spike can be happy in either format. They just find whatever works best to win and play that. Format doesn't matter. They will check the sites for tournament data, find the best list they are most apt to run and run that. You may be making the mistake of assuming that everyone else is a Spike like you.
Johnny wants to be creative in list building and is not concerned about wins. Extended allows for more tools and pieces to put together what they want. Hyperspace limits their choices and is less attractive than Extended.
Timmy wants to put together big combos that are just monstrous. This could be a monster like Handbrake Han, this could be some Dead-Man Switch jank loses all the time but that blows up everything in a spectacular explosion once. Maniacal laughter follows and fun was had. Extended allows for this style of player, and Hyperspace actively attempts to prevent combo-wing with its card banning. Timmy will be most happy in Extended.
When you start looking at the blended personalities, then you start having the problem, because Johnny/Spike and Timmy/Spike add the caveat that "and it must win" to their inner desires: 
Johnny/Spike wants to create their own creative or thematic lists and they must be able to win tournaments consistently. This is where Extended breaks for Johnny/Spike, the meta is developed and there is not a lot of room for creative lists that can also win. Hyperspace may actually be more attractive here since the meta is constantly in flux, new lists emerge and constraints can help creativity.   Timmy/Spike wants to create their own monster combos and they must be able to win tournaments consistently. This is where Extended shines, as combo-wing tends to be able to exist there and put up wins. Hyperspace tries to remove these sorts of "problems" and Timmy/Spike will not be able to put up wins there.

You have proven why that explanation and Extended does not work for you. More importantly, you have shown why the idea doesn't work for Spike/Johnny's. Seriously, anyone who wants to continue the discussion should really take the time to read this old article by one of the MtG designers. It really puts things into context and it will help people realize why we keep talking past each other, because we have different expectations and definitions of fun.
Spike/Johnny's will most likely find Extended frustrating, because the meta is well defined and honed to a razor's edge there, and the Johnny in them wants to create their own lists, to not netdeck and show off their own creativity, but when they play them, they don't put up the W's their inner Spike requires, and they aren't having fun. They will have fun in Hyperspace, because the meta is constantly changing, allowing them to demonstrate their creativity with the blank slate of a new season and discover what wins tournaments (Spike) and simultaneously shows off their creativity (Johnny) to everyone watching.
Myself, I'm more of a Johnny. I want to create my own lists, flying my own thematic stuff, like RAC/Sloane + mini swarm in a I Really Want to be Playing Epic list, or Vader/5th Bro/7th Sis in a Battle of Malachor list. Whatever. I take my stuff and go 4-2 at a local tournament and am happy. A local Spike may point out that the first three games were against trash lists or lower skill players, and don't really count, and the last three games I went 1-2 against meta lists and therefore my list is also trash. I don't feel that way and I had fun because I was able to fly a list I loved and get some wins and some loses and I'm satisfied and feel fulfilled.
Timmy is going to like Extended because it lets him pull off combo-wing. Maybe he gets some wins, and probably some more experienced player spots what he's trying for at Turn 0 and picks his list apart, but he's having fun because he feels clever getting the combo going against a few people. Hyperspace tries, purportedly, to stop Timmy from ever having that list.
Ultimately, Extended and Hyperspace are fun for different players because we want different things from them. In my case, Hyperspace does not allow for it*, but Extended does.  
 
PS: Spike/Timmy created Nymranda or Handbrake Han, Spike would fly them because they put up W's.
* depending on the list of the season, there was one time in recent history after the /v1 with the named Inquisitors was added into rotation I played around with some list making for HS

Looking at the table and realizing, "I'm flying ships that I don't enjoy flying. I'm actually not having fun right now" is a legit reason to dislike playing the Hyperspace format.

Looking at the table and realizing, "I'm flying ships that I don't enjoy flying. I'm actually not having fun right now" is a legit reason to dislike playing the Hyperspace format.

@ForceSensitive Sure, and if you enjoy the Hyperspace format more than Extended, more power to ya.

 
There is just no reason for insulting players who don't prefer a particular format, or that are upset that they can no longer play the ships or pilots that they enjoy in it, as the particular poster I was responding to was. I'm personally glad that Hyperspace exists, and that its a space for those that enjoy the building constraints with limited lists and shaking up the meta periodically. I just personally enjoy Extended more. I'm also against the occasional statement made by some on the forums that FFG should favor Hyperspace over Extended when it comes to design decisions, balancing, and events. 

Looking at the table and realizing, "I'm flying ships that I don't enjoy flying. I'm actually not having fun right now" is a legit reason to dislike playing the Hyperspace format.

@kris40k was just expanding on your point. I'm glad that extended exists for players who want a more static environment.
I do think Hyperspace is the better format though for competition, for a number of reasons. I've never seen it suggested that design should focus on it, which I agree would be a weird thing. Balancing is of course going to have to be split evenly between the two.

@ForceSensitive Sure, and if you enjoy the Hyperspace format more than Extended, more power to ya.

 
There is just no reason for insulting players who don't prefer a particular format, or that are upset that they can no longer play the ships or pilots that they enjoy in it, as the particular poster I was responding to was. I'm personally glad that Hyperspace exists, and that its a space for those that enjoy the building constraints with limited lists and shaking up the meta periodically. I just personally enjoy Extended more. I'm also against the occasional statement made by some on the forums that FFG should favor Hyperspace over Extended when it comes to design decisions, balancing, and events. 

@ForceSensitive Sure, and if you enjoy the Hyperspace format more than Extended, more power to ya.

 
There is just no reason for insulting players who don't prefer a particular format, or that are upset that they can no longer play the ships or pilots that they enjoy in it, as the particular poster I was responding to was. I'm personally glad that Hyperspace exists, and that its a space for those that enjoy the building constraints with limited lists and shaking up the meta periodically. I just personally enjoy Extended more. I'm also against the occasional statement made by some on the forums that FFG should favor Hyperspace over Extended when it comes to design decisions, balancing, and events. 

@ForceSensitive Sure, and if you enjoy the Hyperspace format more than Extended, more power to ya.

 
There is just no reason for insulting players who don't prefer a particular format, or that are upset that they can no longer play the ships or pilots that they enjoy in it, as the particular poster I was responding to was. I'm personally glad that Hyperspace exists, and that its a space for those that enjoy the building constraints with limited lists and shaking up the meta periodically. I just personally enjoy Extended more. I'm also against the occasional statement made by some on the forums that FFG should favor Hyperspace over Extended when it comes to design decisions, balancing, and events. 

Looking at the table and realizing, "I'm flying ships that I don't enjoy flying. I'm actually not having fun right now" is a legit reason to dislike playing the Hyperspace format.

Looking at the table and realizing, "I'm flying ships that I don't enjoy flying. I'm actually not having fun right now" is a legit reason to dislike playing the Hyperspace format.

Looking at the table and realizing, "I'm flying ships that I don't enjoy flying. I'm actually not having fun right now" is a legit reason to dislike playing the Hyperspace format.

The forums are not a hive mind.
 

Really? TIL. Must have been the 'stache vs the baby face that made me think Kennedy was the youngest.

The forums are not a hive mind.
 

Term limits are a really mixed bag.  On the one hand, it's good to break the incumbency bias.  On the other, in places like state legislatures with term limits, it means all your lawmakers are very inexperienced and just about everything is really run by lobbyists.  Theoretically, maybe that can work out OK--there can be lobbyists for good causes, too--but in practice, there's a lot of places where it's been a problem.
I just now looked up folks ages, and Teddy Roosevelt was about a year younger than Kennedy when he assumed the office.  Granted, he was a VP when McKinley was assassinated, so he wasn't the youngest elected.

@kris40k this is what was vindicated. Sorry, but you have misinterpreted the premise. And then as 5050 saint very well explained...
 
Which echoes what I said earlier as well but with welcome details. 
My premise was that the old Polish made app was already in the process of being discarded for earlier failures unrelated to Epic, not because people didn't use it per se, but rather just because they were changing app developers. The issue was the time table set up around the developments of the two products, the Epic mode and the App(s).  Whether or not people used the official or third party apps was a tangential point to support why they wouldn't bother to over extend a contractor to add a feature to an app they were cancelling, and likely knew the new one was going to be ready sooner than later anyway. So with third party apps filling in the gap, FFG kinda wisely leaned on that crutch to justify not contracting a new feature into an app they were cancelling. So when epic didn't show up in the app, it shouldn't have come as a surprise or indicator of anything. That extra app architecture was never built by 10cloud, but the standing contracts that were going to expire/cancel had already included HS/EX so any repairs like you mention to them were already covered under essentially a warranty. And from that as I stated it would likely show up in the new app, which it did, as @FTS Gecko pointed out they declared sometime before all of this.
Now if this new app showed up yesterday, and there was no Epic feature? Then we would absolutely have gone with @Frimmel 's logic as to what that could mean for the format. And I would have agreed that meant they were stepping over epic. But not to worry, because as FFG said, and we guessed anyway, the new app is here and complete with all promised features. Going forward, maybe you use the app as an indicator for things, but that old one was not a viable gauge for the community to make assessments from. I wager this is what made you believe I was backtracking. But I'm not. I'm saying Frims logic would be usable, if the measuring stick he was looking at was itself usable as a measuring tool, but it wasn't, so it didn't matter. Hope that clears that up.

The forums are not a hive mind.
 

Advocating. 
It's not my fault that me wanting something for this game that you don't want is so irritating for you.
And if I seem ornery, it's probably because I feel like I'm defending my favorite part of the game from people who, at best, don't care, and at worst, don't want resources devoted to it.