Gender Locking and Hats: This is a constraint issue

[Jaywalker]

Dude, that's a common jab at big, very rich companies saying they can't meet the standards that they themselves set in the past because "it's too hard" "we ran out of time" or "we don't have money." People use it with Blizzard all the time.

I've been studying how corporations do this kind of thing across media for a while. Those are legitimate issues. Not every person working within a company is rich, and there is still a matter of division of labor as well as managing deadlines. I said before and I'll repeat, I don't think think this is a money thing. I do think it's a time thing with an internal power struggle about what will or won't be done, which is honestly common at big companies. Business and creative workforce tend to butt heads from time to time.

There are companies that legitimately don't try or care. Maybe it would have been better for SE to push release dates back, maybe it wouldn't have been. We don't have all the behind scenes information but even for big companies sometimes there are messes. As long as those messes are fixed it shouldn't be a deal breaker imo.

When I made a post trying to discuss the actual logistics behind this and suggest it might not be personal or hopeless, that reply to me read overwhelmingly like it was going passive aggressive with some word twisting nonsense. I just don't have patience for that.

Sometimes things don't work out in ideal ways, but this fandom has no middle ground between "it's perfect" and "it's absolute garbage". I get this isn't up to usual standards for SE. It's still way better than what most games do.