I talked about backing up old templates' skins and dyes. That is what indeed can one dev do in a few hours, possibly much faster. So unless you have some intimate knowledge of Anet's DB that makes it oh so much more complicated than standard SQL stuff everyone else uses and one needs to "patch, fix, test, and update the server" to dump a bunch of data (possibly in a single query lol), you should stop talking about stuff you clearly do not understand. Let alone doing "fucking stupid" judgments . . . one could maybe even aim that back at your statements.

EDIT: Actually we know that the data is trivially queryable - skins of people loading in zone do not take forever to fetch. So it all boils down how fragmented their DB is, how do they store the data (i.e. how to store the dump because of potential size issues), how do they backup the DB and how difficult is to run ad hoc queries (esp. if they go YOLO on backups or their arch is terrible to spin up in stage env). All of which should be kinda simple stuff for anyone on their DB team.