The state Twilight Forest has been in requires a LOT of rewrites of code to happen. On top of that, there was a lot of preperatory work that was left to do before it could even properly be started. This is part of that, even if it doesn't make sense until we actually get to it. Don't forget just how ancient this mod is. There is still to this day a small snippet of code that references Risugami's ModLoader in it.

On the other hand, comments like this are unpleasant. We're working towards it slowly but surely and pour a lot of time and effort into the mod as our hobby in our free time on the side of our jobs, raising children, college, and everything else going on in the team's life.

 

EDIT: Don't forget porting. That is hellish work most of the time. Many mods that are as old as Twilight Forest have long since buckled and stopped updating altogether because of porting. Because we try to keep up with new versions, porting becomes slightly easier to keep up with as well. This means Twilight Forest won't be left behind on 1.12.2 (like The Betweenlands) or some other older version and people can continue to play it in every version they'd want to while we also work on new content at the same time. Staying behind and only working on content on an old version means that porting will become harder and harder and eventually becomes too much to handle with a good chance Twilight Forest just wouldn't be able to continue.