I think the show passing the books should take a bunch of pressure off of him. At first people were really all over him to finish. Which may be helpful for Martin because he has said in the past that the pressure of writing is one of the causes for delays and that he has a habit of writing stuff then going back and changing it.
At this point I think most people aren't too worried about it. It has been so long, eventually it becomes hard to care too much when the delays add up. And if that means someone else finishes the books, I guess we have to deal with it.
I'm tempted to post a gif from Rocky IV but that would probably be in bad taste.
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