Portable Orchestrion

[Callinon]

This is why developers hate users.

Only jaded (or super arrogant) developers hate users. I've been a developer working on large user-facing projects. This is why I'm completely certain that code can be modified and is not, in fact, carved in stone (or oil on canvas or whatever that was about up there).

I didn't say it'd be easy. I said it was within the scope of possibility because the system already does some of what it would need to do. There'd be no need to create brand new tech here, just some modification to what's already in place.

But it was never designed to do x

The game wasn't designed with flying in mind, we can do that now. Believe me that was a MUCH larger change than is being proposed here.
The game wasn't designed to have collectables, but somehow that's now a thing.
The game didn't ship with duty roulettes. Remember having to spam Castrum Meridianum to cap tomestones? I do.
The game didn't ship with a glamour system. Letting one piece of gear look like another piece of gear? Blasphemy!
The game didn't ship with GPose. Changing outdoor visual effects so that they'd only be visible to the player was a big deal. But changing outdoor audio that only changes for the player is a bridge too far apparently?

I could go on and on.... and on.