i feel like alot of people here are misunderstanding the level decision vs. the voice decision. They are not contradictory. When he says they left out voice chat because it could be tactical (paraphrase), he's saying they felt that tactics was not an encouraging reason to include the feature because you can be tactical without voice chat so you don't need it. It's not contradictory at all. It's incredibly stupid. but not contradictory.
I really don't mind the level delay thing. I do, however, think that the campaign should have sold by itself as a 30$ budget game. Then the multiplayer could have been a 30$ Downloadable title only with free updates.

Real answer: The higher ups at Nintendo were scared a young kid would here some bad words online.

Voice chat is one of the reasons why I don't play online shooters anymore. So Splatoon will be nice when I get my Wii U and the game.

so they did not want to invest the $ s to have voice chat and thats a good enough reason?  If people don t complain /critisize then how would the dev know what their target audience wants until its too late

I like that they designed the game to not need voice chat and removed voice chat so I don't hear the idiots that play the game without worrying that they have an advantage over me. I do think private matches should have voice chat though. That is something entirely differen, but I would just use teamspeak or skype to get passed that.

That's okay, good players can still beat bad players. Teams with good players will still beat teams with bad ones.

i cant believe the voice chat talk is still an on going topic :O

Good players still beat bad ones out of brute force. There's no set of organisation in the team, me and my friend aren't the best Cod players, but we won 57 straight games in 2v2 Face-off on Erosion/Aground because we knew exactly what each other was doing and never stopped talking. They should give people the choice, and if they can't do it say they can't or at least not come up with stupid reasons that can easily be solved.

When I play online I mute everyone other than my friends or if I'm alone then I will mute everyone. It's not hard, especially when every Wii U owner has a gamepad therefore a microphone to communicate. 

I don't know why you think an on screen map wouldn't be legible.  Even if it wasn't, there could just be a toggle to expand the map.  It's not like the gamepad screen is huge, and the map doesn't even cover a large portion of it.  Based on the size of my TV and the distance from my couch, a fairly typical minimap in the corner would be the same perceived size as the one on the gamepad resting in my hands.  Now of course, it's easier to put your face up to the gamepad than to the TV, but it is even easier to tap a button and make the mini map larger.  It would certainly be a lot more useful than the dpad taunt/chat in the corner, or the player status on top (not that the latter isn't useful information, but it could easily be displayed in a fraction of the size that it currently is).

Really, the ideal would just be to give you options for you to customize the UI.

Also, in regards to the original scenario about communicating to your teammates.  Just seeing the situation on the map doesn't necessarily tell you how to deal with it.  Without being able to communicate you can end up with situations where you overcommit and have everyone respond, or the opposite where everyone assumes someone else will deal with it.

Just to let you know the content is pretty much done. A couple of unreleased maps (around 3-4) are in the single player as stages, it's just not available yet in the multiplayer.