Its nice of you to take this under concideration ... but two notes:
1) This is, allways was, and allways will be Larian decision.
No matter how much time and resources things take and no matter how much they would be wasted in our opinion ... once Larian decide to do something, they will ... once Larian decide to not do something they dont.
And there is nothing we can do about it ... so i would say there is no reason to worry about this either.
BTW this was exactly topic of the last interview with Swen ... he decided to give Mysterious Box to Shadow ... and that decision led to huuuuge amount of permutations they had to implement.
One would say that this all was wasted, especialy since Swen himself admited that he isnt exactly happy with the outcome.
It took less than 15 minutes for people on this forum to come up with better solution ... but no matter since Swen decided.
2) In many cases its not option that would cost additional "time and resources" its the change.
All time and resources Larian invested into implementing every single thing would be wasted ... if they would just replace it with new thing ...
Unless they would keep the curent state as an option.
You know what i mean right? Implementing things as they are now had some cost ... and if they will just throw it away for some "better" way ... its wasted.
I could repeat that casting system example ...
That could save them some time and resources if they would have listened to my suggestion and expand the old system instead of replacing it ... they didnt ... so now they have to reinvent that system again to achieve funcionality we allready had in the past.
Just bcs somebody decided to make change and throw away old mechanics instead keep them as an option.
