I really sympathize with this person. Basically it's taken a few months to get his MSDN Universal subscription renewed. While some of it can be scapegoated on the new versions available, I had a similar experience last year, and I don't think this is isolated to the new versions of MSDN that are available.
Read this for the 'new' Chinese Water Torture
Time to go add some new tidbits to why I'm glad I switched :)