Yep.

Having worked in software dev and db management professionally, and having been modding (as in making mods) all kinds of games for even longer... yep, I knew it was completely fucked almost immedeately, as soon as it was:

Throw out most of the old dev team

We are gonna rebuild the engine/game from the ground up

Add in vastly complex features and capabilities at the same time

On a horrendously unrealistic timeframe.

...

Normally, any two of those is extreme danger zone.