Yeah, I'm staying optimistic. Even if it seems like adding a small quest is an easy task, as someone who's currently coding and scripting his way through the game data (and I'm quite comfortable with programming), seeing even just the wealth of data really puts it into perspective how massive and complicated this entire ordeal is. Even if it's not packed in this format in dev.
We shouldn't get impatient - we can express discontent with the ending, the inability to fix the engine, or even the inability to explore the plausible options that may keep her alive on the Material Plane without becoming a mind flayer. But we also shouldn't want it right now or under such a short amount of time; coordinating and executing a multi-faceted development effort is not easy and they also have other things to do besides Karlach's ending. And currently, the chances of getting the infernal engine fix ending don't seem that slim.
I can understand why people are upset. To be fair, I was quite shocked and saddened too since I thought they would've made the engine fix ending, which is what we all think is the "ending that she deserves." But it does seem like there's at least some hope and we should give them more time to react to our discontent-ness rather than to become impatient/hopeless right now. Who knows, maybe we'll get a better, more fleshed-out quest/ending than the quick fixes that people are bargaining for.
