User blog comment:Dragonjet/KC3改/@comment-84.90.161.45-20150717213214/@comment-1820055-20150717234110

Hi, thanks for the feedback, although Battle Mode still has its uses like the detection, engagement, contact, support expedition trigger flag, night battle trigger flag to know if day-time wipeout, battle rating and drop ship face during result. it also shows plane counts for each slot of each ship, and fuel/ammo gauges, so we won't be disabling battle mode just for a specific bug. We will investigate the plane count you mentioned.

About the timing of updates, there are actually Beta releases every 2 days in between the webstore versions. e.g. for v11: We would appreciate it if more people join these test phases
 * 11.0 published July 13
 * 11.1 published July 15

It is unfortunate that API structure changed on this update, and it can't be helped that this will have consequences. Even if we did release v11, let's say back last Monday, only to again bug this Friday because of the change, no matter when we did the update, a breaking API-change will break the features.