I was afraid of a timeskip being proposed. There were things I wanted Yaichiro to do. Meet people, talk to Hanako about possible upgrades, have more time to work on that fire solution (I suck at chemistry OOCly), do salvage, perhaps help Takeyu and/or explore the Mishhu ship debris...though some of those things could be done by someone else or the whole of the crew. If we had to timeskip, I'd prefer that we at least assume Yaichiro got a chance to salvage and get the items in the wiki.
There's lots of stuff to do and there's also the fact that for some reason, a fair bit of the crew seems to not be posting at all. Do you really want to start Mission 10 without them?