Today, programmers are rewarded for being fast not accurate. This is the mantra taught for almost 20 years. Get it out fast, don’t worry about breaking things, change is good. So here we are. Go look it up it is real. RERO; Fail fast, fail often; be fast and break things…
It’s not just this game. There are dozens of examples in any software from games to the Windows and even Linux where an obvious bug is sent out. Yes, they are observed but a change costs time (money) so the bug is ignored.