but a large portion of bugs/issues are related to the current spaghetti code, “new” content will be limited to shoehorning existing mechanics into slightly different roles, and every additional patch lowers game performance just a little bit more
if we were to just barge ahead without the engine upgrade i suspect most updates would either be A) extremely narrow in scope like slightly tweaked existing clothing or more and more redundant modifications and reskins, or B) awful half-assed stuff like riot, which still took at least a year of dev time despite being stitched together (very poorly) from existing mechanics
all while the game plays worse and worse, plus as the months go by a majority of players will move on to rtx or better gpus and won’t be able to play the current 32 bit version at all