I didn't realise that the hardfork was so close. For me, the new changes to curation are the most exciting thing. It will for sure give the bots a run for their money. Most of the rest flies a bit over my head but words like performance, optimisation and speedups all sound great too.
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Just to be clear, the 1.5 months is very much a "best case" estimate. It could easily be a month or more later, if we found any significant issue during testnet testing.
It wouldn't even have to be some new issue, as we're also doing more testing of the longstanding functionality of the blockchain that has never been fully tested to my complete satisfaction.
A minor example of such a longstanding problem was the cpu loading I mentioned in the post that we found when our testing node wasn't connected to any peers. But that's a relatively minor issue that could be fixed later without a hardfork (and it is also a small enough issue that we can just fix it quickly). If we find any definitive consensus bugs that need fixing during our testing, they could easily delay the hardfork by several weeks.
I am always happy to wait until everything is running to everyone's satisfaction and wouldn't want to see things rushed out to hit deadlines. I just thought that we were much further away from the best case.