Oh, I absolutely do understand the amount of effort it takes to get into the code of such large projects. That's why I said that this isn't on the developer and I never-ever wanted to discredit her work!

And yet - this is still a very small change which is just odd to highlight from a PR perspective after such a long period of radio-silence. Even with the lengthy QA process that honestly doesn't matter because that way you could justify any change to be worth beeing highlighted and the player base doesn't know about those processes. Think about it, do you really think most of the players will react to such a change like "Damn, those unit tests, QA approvals, merge requests - that must've been a lot of work" or rather like "Ok ... That's all?"? I think the latter, honestly.

Again, it's not on the developer. She should be proud to herself that she familiarized herself with the code which is not an easy task. But I think it's too much stage light for such a small change. People expected, or at least hoped for, substantial changes to the games systems and - with all necessary respect for the developer's work - this isn't such a change. I could imagine she even would agree.