I love the engine but why is it so bare bones?

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@erWilly;673284

The final engine version withou bug, another of the chimeras that have the beginners.
But that has easy cure, start creating games for clients or publishers that impose hard deadlines or you do not collect money.
Quickly learn to stay in a version throughout the project, take care of the bugs that accompanied you during the development, even make some of them a feature of the game
and of course the wonderful world of workarounds in which you will soon become a master.

There is no illusion here of a “final version” I stick to one version of the engine, though will -have- to upgrade due to a serious problem that Epic do not know the commits to fix are. Work arounds are fine but after several versions of the engines, with things being broken and new niche features (I’m not discounting some of the fixes that have come though) I don’t think I’m the only one who is wishing for a stability release like 4.10

Conversations about changing engine versions usually go along the lines of “I need to upgrade” “This version breaks X” “But this version fixes X… But it breaks Y” “The version after that backlogged X and tried to fix Y but it’s still broken”

I bet there is fair reasons why this is happening, but I think posting more threads requesting more features for Epic to maintain is going to hurt in the end unless they hire 2 dozen more engineers to cope with the workload.