How far into development Anthem currently is?

The first I heard they were working on it was 2012. So... 5 years (or more) already.

They were originally slated to release March next year, but it was just recently delayed until the fall.

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While it could "wildly change", I think after the DAI debacle of them changing things from E3 to release, as well as the negative press games get when they downgrade from E3 showings (i.e. Watchdogs, The Witcher 3, etc), we can reasonably assume that what we saw should be very much like the finished product. Bioware doesn't want any more "bad press".

The only correct answer is "not long enough" since the game is not being shipped this fall alongside the Xbox one X

I imagine Anthem hasn't had to go through as much leadership change besides Hudson leaving midway through.  Andromeda was nothing but various big names leaving during its development.

And what would you think the outcome would be? You're still going to get a mess of a game in Andromeda, good luck telling EA "we need to drop the game" after years have already been put into it.

It could help, or it could just make things even worse. There's a reason. Why most games are only in development for a few years as the longer the cycle, the more you risk of second guessing choices and then going back to change things, and if you end up getting time cut you then have to just rush things together. Have you heard of duke nukem? Spent about a whole decade in development and it was bad, really bad. It went through various changes, had original concepts scrapped, and even then it was still rushed out as they had to launch it at some point. Not to mention you drag the budget when you down out even longer on a game. Would EA give more money. If Andromeda needed a few more years? (I say years cause giving it a few months to polish isn't enough to fix many of its developmental issues.)

Yeah Austin was Shadow Realms.

I wonder that Anthem could have even been set up to release late this year but it'd suck.
And it could release early 2018 but perhaps that'd be too soon.
So it is being aimed to release late 2018 and 'get it right'. Will it really get it right? Who knows. All I know is that if its mainly some grinder then it can take forever to release for all I really care.

Anthem was pushed back to late 2018 in March of this year, it was originally meant to release in Spring 2018 (according to EA's shareholder meetings).

They've said (EA) are open to pushing it to 2019 if that's what it takes.as for it effecting schedule, it depends. The ME team is now pretty much all in on Anthem and SWBFII and DA4 hasn't been confirmed (but there have been hints/teases that they are working on it). Officially Anthem is the only thing on their plate right now and if that's really all they have it shouldn't be effecting to much.