I think the fix they are referring to in the next update is this:
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Maxis (Lvl 6 Code Monkey)
— 11/30/2021
This kind of is what happens, the problem was they are generated as full NPCs which then put them in the update cycle since they never change until encountered this was wasteful so Ace wrote a fix but yeah, in hindsight a lot of LT code is bad, but takes time to fix, like most things, it works at the time, but then later on you find ways it can be better
(from discord mod discussion)
not a programmer, or understand the specifics, but in the chat they acted as if this would be quite the panacea.
We got goats this year....think that's it, did we get anything else?