Are you positing that we need to wait 5 years for them to decided that Ergon weapons are no longer "new" and that we were all justified in our assessment of how ridiculous the time period is to start the Ergon weapon quest so that they can then implement fixes? How about we just accept the fact that it IS ridiculous and that they should do something about it NOW rather than 5 years from now.
I would like to have an Idris before I die of old age or the servers shut down, whichever happens first. People that are returning to the game after a hiatus are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to starting this quest specifically because it takes 6 months to even truly begin.