Evening,
I recently read interview about Larian studios where David Walgrave was underlying that if they promise something (on the box), they also plan to keep it as they wan't to be worth of their word.
Now when looking comments on forums or wiki's while the game is a gem otherwise and highly praised its crafting keeps popping up. The modding community clearly shows that adding more recipes and making the crafting more deeper and wider is one of things that are tried to 'fix' in the game.
Now taking something that has gone several (hunder) thousand play tests seems to in my ICT professional eyes tested enough to be implemented to the live version
So ...why not?
I have wondered the same question on several other games (FO, Elder scrolls) where someone has made game improving modifications that significantly improve the game experience that don't get to implemented to the game. If Bethesda would approach me and be 'Hey, your quality of life mod is awesome, we want to make it core. Would a copy of every our future game, katsiljon ingame coins and your name in credits be ok for passing the © to us?' I would myself say yes but that's just me.
Has anything like this ever even tried to do? Closest thing i know is Bethesda's Creating club that is basically a recruit program for content creation.