Please do not judge the freelancers on this. Asking them to "whip up a table" is unreasonable no matter how little effort or time it would take. You are asking them to do their job, from which they derive their living, for free. That is bad business, and it is wildly unreasonable to put them in a position where they need to refuse day after day.
The issue is that Catalyst is not paying a writer to do the errata, and they are not doing that because at this point, it would not generate any additional revenue, and they no longer need to satisfy the customers asking for it as they have already invested as much money into the product as they can by purchasing it. I am not justifying this behavior, as we can reasonably assume this will result in some lost customers, but I reserve my judgement on the matter because they certainly have someone with more expertise than me analyzing these matters and the cost/benefit projections and determining it costs more to pay for erratas than it does to simply ignore them.
At any rate, I sympathize that the book does not provide what you were hoping. I share your disappointment that the erratas have seemingly stopped forever, and I feel particularly betrayed at the various promises of upcoming erratas only to find that they go unfulfilled month after month. It seems that you cannot expect the support that you hope for, and, quite frankly, deserve.
I have not had any problem with any of the other books we own, not really. However, Howling Shadows is a big disappointment. The writer did not give us physical descriptions for a lot of the meta-critters (and I cannot emphasize how much that has been a pain in the ass) and the minimal art means that we are forced to go back to earlier editions to get a glimpse of what is what.
It has been a running gag in my group that half the players have the Predigest Quality against Gnomes for no good damn reason. I personally would mock this but my character is running alongside four other people who hate Gnome-kind and want them eradicated from the planet. All for their own reasons. Now, when I saw G-Nome in the book I knew that would be a talking point for my group. And I personally thought the name G-Nome was incredibly witty.
However, after reading the book and what he has to say at length I have decided that I have more love for Clockwork than G-Nome.
He is extremely pretentious and talks about all the critters in the book like they are poor benevolent creatures. Like, he does not recognize that nature is a viscous and unforgiving thing. It is kill or be killed. He sounds like someone out of the 1960's Doctor Dolittle film and I do not like that he is our primary source of information -- especially since he does not even tell me what the Merrow are awakened from or what they freaking look-like.
The writer behind the book either did it intentionally (to make an insufferable know-it all Gnome EVO-hipster) or it was poorly thought out. I love nature and the environment. I love a lot of the ideas in the book but I do not like how they are presented to the reader, in many places it is assumed you already know a lot of this stuff and it lacks the natural charm of a lot of the earlier critter books.
There is an old conversation discussing the Juggernaut's fear aura, and runners not being 100% certain if it was a critter power or if its just natural for people to be scared of something that large. That will stay with me forever, but Howling Shadows has nothing like that in it. Instead, the Juggernaut's critter description talks about its digestive system and treats it like this poor misunderstood beast. There's no talk about the aftermath or the danger, its almost like it is trying to justify its destructive behavior.
But the missing table is the real crime, everything else I can forgive as artistic taste. But the missing table is what has upset me. There is a lot in the book that will be useful and fun and it was neat finding out that they worked out how to cyber up animals without driving them nuts (finally). I mean, who doesn't want a cool cybered horse?
But I'm sorry to say, if G-Nome comes near Boston he's toast. Brysen Blue will look the other way and team disappear him. I'll keep them in check for gnomes I don't know because I'm staunchly opposed to their extinction agenda, but G-Nome bugged me and as far as I am concerned he no longer has a place in the gene pool.
EDIT: After talking it through with one of the other players, it appears we will be going to him. Does anyone have any "canonical" information on G-Nome before we make him dead? Is this the first time he's posted any data online?