Quote Originally Posted by Tiggy View Post
Yoshi made a post about a month back that broke down the situation and did give a solid explanation.
Agree with the rest of your post, just a minor correction. Yoshi has never stated anything about the paradigm chosen. There was a very helpful forum goer that explained server live-state and client live-state, and how it's an early design choice and not likely to be changed now as it would be extremely costly and require a lot of time. I'm not sure if that's the post you are referring to or not.

If you do actually have a post from Yoshi about it, I would be interested in seeing it. I try to keep up with everything surrounding this particular issue and the only things official from Yoshi I've seen on it are the announcements that users are experiencing issues, so they're reducing the intervals between position updates (both during launch and the most recent patch), and then the comments from the interview I posted earlier in this thread that Reinheart was awesome to translate.