I absolutely love this.
I believe its much much better if they start fixing bugs than spending time on this. If server didn't had so many bugs there was gonna be much more players.
And I believe you have no idea about what is and what isn't time consuming when it comes to being a developer. Changing this probably didn't have much of an impact at all on bug fixing/script writing at the end of the day, ^^
This is a really great thing for the horde side I imagine. Go VG!