It's not about 'hate' it's about time, money, and resources. Don't put *any* CC in and it's utter crap, put some in and people will bitch on the forums, put it in but delay the game for another three years to program every single encounter special snowflake and you're looking at losing your publishing rights altogether as well as pissing off your backers who've already ponied up their cash and want to see an end product at the end of a three year cycle in an industry that sees hardware changes on that same cycle. It's not about hate, it's about being a business.
Someone really peed in your Cheerios.
No one's asking them to do ANY more work, in fact it took MORE time to code all the CC spells that are already in the game and then go and decide "no, this duration is too long, it's not fun, make it a shorter duration instead to satisfy the dnd newcomers" than it would have to just straight import the spells.
Everything is already done just need to back up on their intentional nerfing a bit and this is fine. 5 turns is half normal duration and would be a nice comprimise and make the spells worth using. For me, gonna just play modded and be able to play the game the way I want to, which I believe was Larion's intent from the beginning.
I find a CC playstyle as preventing damage as opposed to healing it up afterwords to be supremely satisfying and exceptionally well fit for a turn based game even if I'm not dishing out massive damage.
