Quote Originally Posted by kukurumei View Post
Simple answer: Left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing, SE tends to be a little more idiot that it doesn't even remember which is left and which is right.
Complex answer: It can be fix, they don't have the brain power to do it easily, and the decision falls into limbo.
Except that isn't true at all. If you are to believe the OP, you can't just change the server architecture on a whim. I find that explanation to make a lot of sense.

I think they do design around the positional limitation, because for people that have a good connection to the game there's no problem. Remember how they increased the dodge time for Twintania hurricanes? Someone is looking at that balance.

The thing they likely did not account for is the the extent of how bad some infrastructure is and how poor some people's connections are. That isn't a problem of integration at SE, that was a problem with assumptions very early in the developmental cycle.