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Ok good, Im not crazy and reading between the lines.
That being said, if Yoshi already said "Its not an issue that can be solved with more people or money" I don't think Sales of ShB will exactly solve it or get the Genders quicker.

Ah, but he did say it was a resource issue because they would struggle to maintain their current patch cycle given existing resource availability. All he said is that it could not be simply solved by throwing more money or manpower at it. Not that those aren't factors, especially when he went on to name debugging and QA as the specific areas that were posing a problem. However one slices it up, it does in fact resolve back to those issues, just not in a straightforward manner (i.e. SE is unwilling to go out and hire a team of contingent QAs for a short period of time, or to contract the work out, etc.)

However, it doesn't matter what the root of the problem is - if there's no money involved in solving it, SE is less likely to even bother. Whereas if there is profit to be made, there is a greater incentive to find a way to resolve these issues. Thus the question is articulated in that way. If SE saw that ShB failed to generate much interest and too few people cared about the new races to make them financially viable, they could draw the inference that the money is best utilised elsewhere.