Kickstarter Stats

I think the biggest issue is that number is harder to track. It's pretty simple to automate these kind of numbers and the number you're talking about requires self reporting by the project team and at least one, if not more Kickstarter employees to wrangle the data/facilitate the reporting. Though at this point they probably have enough staff to handle that.

It would be nice if that was better micromanaged, or at least metricized somehow.

That's really surprising. I've backed 7 projects. Of the 5 that were funded, I think all of them were on time. One was for a friend's band to record an album. That might have been a little late, but definitely not glaringly late. Although I have tended to fund things my friends were working on and I had solid knowledge about rather than the grandiose popular projects. I know one issue they've had is when projects are insanely successful the project team often doesn't know where to start/has trouble delivering on lofty promises. I also know they are taking steps to prevent those issues and asking their project teams to be realistic about what they can be accomplish and cap available rewards when projects get really popular.