How is there an error 1017? Has SE never heard of a queue?

[Neptune]

Its painfully apparent they added the 1017 to lock people out completely as their temp fix, or else their queue that they promote all the time would be working.

Pretty annoying to come home from work and see this -still-.

Beta 4 understandable, hell even launch day, understandable. Now this is getting ridiculous, i dont know anyone that thinks they deserve more of our patience.

In trying to fathom the depths of SE's mind, I considered that, but no, there is no reason they need to create an error for locking out logins. A queue is enough. Someone logs off, someone logs in. They can set the threshold lower, so that even if you're #1 in the queue you might have to wait for 500 people to log off because the limit has been changed. In other words, this is just an inconvenience, plain and simple, to make it easy on SE so they don't have to create and/or maintain a functioning queue system. Because they don't give uh fuwk.