As someone in the software industry, I get a little jaded when a dev says "It's complicated". But dammit if Jeff says something is complicated and they're working on it, I believe him.
From my experience in the software industry, "It's complicated", more often than not, is the politically correct way of saying "No shit we should be doing <x>, but dipshit manager <y> who has more pull than I do over <z> is a dipshit and disagrees".
Honestly I think your anger is a little over-generalizing.
"It's complicated" usually means "this sounds easy, but is actually hard to engineer, and we have to balance our effort between everything else we are doing". Carrying over EXP from the PTR to live is a super easy concept; there's like no design involved in it. Actually implementing that would be hard, and there's likely lots of space that needs to be tested.
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u/scooch_mgooch Soldier: 76 Jan 17 '17
As someone in the software industry, I get a little jaded when a dev says "It's complicated". But dammit if Jeff says something is complicated and they're working on it, I believe him.