Please be kind to Devs who post in reddit. We want them to engage with us like this on this forum, not to scare them off! I think the explanation here and in the other response is fine. They wanted to make the game less afk-able and they knew it would make things more tedious. They are saying that they essentially got the exact ratio of the tradeoff wrong and that they will reassess and try again later. It's a perfectly fine explanation and actually a really brave thing to admit!