If the new citizenship rule applies for everyone who submitted their application and still in the process then there is a big mess for a lot of us. According to my understanding you cannot even leave for a day otherwise we will be rejected or delayed or whatever "NOT SURE WHAT WILL BE THE SITUATION"
I applied Nov 2017 means from that date till back Nov 2016 (I should not have left >> I had a 2 weeks holiday back to my country)
also I am going to a holiday at the end of this year now I am not sure, if I even should go, this country has jokes sometimes regarding their rules
I am not sure if that new rule will be for whoever apply for now and onwards.
That's definitely stupid and sound to me like they could not solve the problem of the process so the judge decided to a whole new rule to stop the flow of the applicants and reduce the pressure on the office.