Theres been weeks where the 2x gather has been left on and weeks where we have no 2x. It's kind of a buzz kill on weekends when its left to regular gather rates, The game is grindy as it is the least we could do while we're waiting for the mega update is not spend all day farming to go do some fun stuff.
It's also been a while since there was a 2x breeding, That made the game super fun for a while where it wasn't that terrible to breed certain animals.
Idk just bored and not motivated to
We've got our heads down at the moment working on some things, so expect it to be a bit more quiet than usual for a while.
As for 2x weekends, they aren't guaranteed to happen every weekend. In this case, we were working on a build to deploy (perhaps to the PTR again too with some pretty critical changes) but it needed more time internally, so we may end up going out with it later during the week and we'll discuss whether that includes a 2x or not.