>>95886515
>they're not THAT stupid
No, they really are.
This is the company whose mainline product, the one they tried to kill, suddenly became popular, and their immediate reaction was "OMG we are teh nu-GW, we canz rack up prices for cheap chinkium melties" and to start simplifying and dumbing down the rules as much as possible, despite one of the draws to BT being the autistic level of simulationist detail.