Players connot join the party while you are engaged in combat

[Physic]

Definite for existing content. It's subject to change for "Future content" if they think it needs it.

Abstractly, it just seems like SE is being lazy & unwilling to deal with some of their bad design problems since they're so busy working on content. They should have kept this to themselves or waited another month or 2.

better they tell people now, when an issue isnt seriously being considered than to keep them guessing, or wondering if its going to change. They got to make descions, no reason to hide the.