Place your bets on how long we have to wait for Patch #2

They did improve them, some of them are noticeably better than in older footage, but then a lot of them are still awful and non of them are that good. I don't think any patch is gonna fix these issues, this is what you get. Let's hope the bulk of this is just at the beginning of the game.

As I've said in another thread, I think that even if they improve the CC somehow, it won't be near as what anyone is asking for. Unfortunately.
As for the time of release, probably one month after launch, if they do it, that is.

Five years, man.. five years. What happened?

That's just sales and marketing for you.  You don't bring up the negatives.

You shouldn't LIE in promoting your game. It WILL come back to haunt you. Look at No Man's Sky reception after launch. They promised the stars and delivered nothing even close and were universally panned for it. Sales were most certainly hurt. 
A better route for Bioware devs to have taken would have been silence. Don't brag about something that's bad. Simple.

No Man's Sky also hit its sales goals.  I know you shouldn't lie in promoting your game, but....maybe you should go do sales for a year.  I'm not saying its right, but it's frequent even in large corporate deals.  I personally left the profession after making a ton of money because it was sometimes required of you to hit the numbers even from a consultative rather than transactional approach.   

You're gullible OP. It'll be two months.

They'll get something out in the first week or two, maybe by end of the month. It will either be entirely fixes, or maybe have a bitttt of feature stuff that they just couldn't initially squeeze in.

April-May will have the more substantial stuff and May-August the continuing support for at least the sake of DLC.

Initially I was ambivalent about when the patch will be released. Bioware exhibited reception to fan feed back and now appear amenable to even patching things, I also believe they were complacent and a little arrogant in their assumptions that everyone would tolerate the current state of the game.

Now the rhetoric has escalated as if Bioware intentionally sabotaged the CC to make people purchase improvements, I can't discern how reliable this is. Conspiracies are rampant, disgruntled gamers and hyperbolic reviews are obscuring what the marketing wishes to establish. R/gaming on Reddit has already been censored, omitting criticism about animations.

I don't know what the patch will contain but I think it's naive to think Bioware aren't ' concerned' and dismiss it as negligible 'haters.'

I think we will be seeing a patch within the first week of the European release.