Reading some of the replies under that tweet gives me an aneurysm. Mojang bootlickers finding any excuse to not blame Mojang for this.
Out of curiosity I decided to look up how many people work at Wube Software, the team that made Factorio.
factorio.com
>Originally "a garage company" of 2 programmers and 1 graphician, with an interesting idea grew to a team of 32 in-house professionals and contributors around the world.
32 full-time employees. Thirty two. And they are able to constantly add new features to their game, work on a fully-fledged expansion, AND port their game to Nintendo Switch.
And mind you they're an actual independent game studio out of Czech Republic, the only reason they can fund their shit is because Kovarex came up with a solid idea and it sells like hotcakes. Or rather got inspired by Minecraft tech mods.
How. The fuck. Can anyone excuse Mojang not being bothered to add two mobs, when they have over 600 full-time employees and the absolute giant supporting them that is Microsoft? This is some higher level Kool-Aid drinking.
Plus, Mojang's way of working doesn't excuse them of anything. It's just two mobs, and having to implement it to two codebases, run tests and release is 100% within their company's capacity. They just refuse to acknowledge that they can't be bothered to do actual work because the money they're now earning is so good they don't need to.
Because those are the modern industry standard, as little effort as needed to get a paycheck. No passion, no effort, just mindless droning.
NONONONONO EVEN
FUCKING BETTER
NOTCH MADE A FULL ZELDA-LIKE MINECRAFT CLONE IN 48 FUCKING HOURS. A FULL TOP-DOWN VIEW 2D GAME. IN 48 HOURS. ALONE.
NO. FUCKING. EXCUSE. The only reason Mojang refuses to add all the mobs at once is because they are absolutely lazy. They aren't afraid of the mobs breaking balance or game feel, they aren't incapable of that amount of work in their workflow. They are just lazy and complacent, and they refuse to expand on the game that keeps getting sold because the community behind it that they're trying their best to suffocate is the sole reason still fueling the sales.