I shit on Koda regularly, often to his DMs directly so he can't avoid it. I also make no argument that Koda's improvements mean he's totally doing a good job, and I don't defend his insane delays. How he manages to delay on stuff so badly is an absolute mystery to me, I'm half inclined to believe he spends half the day masturbating but I seriously don't know.
I really can claim what you said is untrue, because unlike everyone sharing speculation, I actually have worked with Koda's code. And that's extensively, both building mechanics for him to use later (the journal from WG, a QTE mechanic that I think is in Level 0, scheduling tools, the improved settings menu, more crafting capabilities, etc) as well as helping him with bugs that were taking too long for him to find. If there was even the slightest possibility that Koda was sabotaging the code to make it harder for others to work with, I would've noticed by now.
I talk about Koda's "enormous improvements" because I'm a bloody software engineer. Here's a summary of a few of the improvements Koda's made and why they're improvements:
- Clearly defined constants at the head of each script root, means there are very few magic numbers and jumps in flow aren't obfuscated
- Directory script loading means you can categorise scripts by folder and subfolder etc which makes it a hundred times easier to find what you're looking for. On top of that, you can use N++ or Atom or w/e to search for specific keywords throughout the entire file tree to find what you need, which isn't possible in RPG Maker and is part of why working in the RPG Maker editor makes me wanna kms
- For later characters he has abbreviated dialogue functions so that making a character say something with a specific face can be as easy as `Lily.angry("Ethan you're pissing me off")` which is clear, concise, and maintainable. Absolutely fantastic addition when you see how it normally works to do that in scripts (not in common events).
If people want a detailed explanation of to what extent ToT is spaghetti and why, I can provide one. But accusing Koda of sabotaging the codebase is an insane idea to anyone who's taken a serious look through the scripts. I can understand being confused by what Bo said, but I'm telling you as someone that knows how this system works that there's no way the man is sabotaging the code in any way.