Patches to me are a double edged sword. If they just fixed the known problems it would be great. But I think most of the time and expense goes into the wish lists and things that work but not everyone cares for.

If they would just fix the problems I would be happy, but they seldom do because of the other crap and yes I mean crap that they wind up changing.

They should just set up a small shop in India to fix problems and it would hardly make a dent in budgets and leave the nice to have stuff to the moding community. After all it is mostly just nice to have stuff, or even unwanted stuff that they add in most of the patches.

Working 2 hand weapons, pike, spear wall, and being able to fight elephant artillery is more important than much of the other junk.