Nope they gotta chop and hack the code for blocking this time....smh instead of fixing crit rush where the two handed sword stays behind me and doesnt fire or loading in from a fresh complete uninstall and reinstall to the screen being bloody like I'm almost dead .
I mean we could write a list of broken buggy skills as large as a dictionary and they would find something else that nobody even mentions to rewrite the code for. It's getting absurd

Answer: They see little financial gain

Just as it was when it was first released in 2014, there was no confidence it would succeed which led to a serious lack of commitment, a rush to make the Hero engine fit their means, and a forced release with a barely playable game.

They gave up in 2018 shortly after the Summerset release. The mountain of issues to fix were just too numerous, the technical support section went dark for 12 months, many staff members left & a lot of confidence in the game was lost.

We can only hope that the next team involved in an ES game learns from the mistakes that, if avoided, would have made it the number 1 MMO, a shining example to other games.

It’s easy targeting to say ZOS should only be addressing the most important issue, but that’s not really entirely realistic.

There will be a list of issues arrange by priority, but two things affect that

First, it’s easy to say ‘crashing’ is a big issue (because clearly it is), but this is such a vague, catch-all term which refers to the result (a crash) rather than the cause, or more likely the many, many interlinked causes. Users won’t distinguish between different types of crash, to us it’s all ‘crashing’. It’s very hard to fix a result. It takes an enormous amount of work just to determine what might be causing a crash so you can reliably replicate the issue. And until you can do that it’s hard to determine a fix. And that’s for every single potential ‘crash’ causing issue. You could fix three quarters of all the cause issues (which would be a fantastic result) and still not appear to have any impact simply because people are still crashing from different issues.

Second, if you have a specific issue that’s mid to low priority, but which can be completely fixed, it makes sense to fix that. Again, there will be a list of these and some will get sorted along the way. Fixing these issues is a sign of progress and investment into the game and doesn’t really detract from addressing the more significant issues as often because these issues tend to be simpler, they can be addressed by more junior or less experienced developers. It’s important for both players and developers to see that some visible progress is being made.

Finally, every time I see something in the patch notes saying “fixed an issue in This Old Quest to ensure character A behaves correctly in this particularly rare occurrence”, I’m pleased because it means ZOS aren’t leaving old content there to rot. That’s not the no 1 priority on anyone’s list, but it’s nice to think that even these little things matter. And that’s a great attitude for developers to have.

Different teams for different areas and problems.

I thank Pyrite everyday that those who work on class and weapon balance are not touching server stability. That alone would be foolish to think they do, aswell overly idiotic for anyone to publicly claim it. Luckily commonsense would take over.

I hope update 25 is going to fix a lot of this stuff. It would be very disappointing to re-downloadl the entire game(about 3 days for me), only to end up with the same problems we have now.

I don't say this as an insult or to be flippant but I think the true answer is they are not competent enough to fix these problems. If you look at some of the persistent problems that they've deployed several "fixes" for that remain unfixed, I think it's safe to say that the ZOS coders don't have the skill to fix their game.

And we players have become so used to the constant errors that we don't even notice them any more.

Here's the first few minutes from when I logged in today.

Login attempt
Error: you are not connected to the internet. (Yes, I am)
Login attempt again
Error: that account is already logged in (How did I log in when I was supposedly not connected to the internet?)
Login complete. Log into Rimmen.
Mount and run to crafting stations. Run on top of horse.
Get invite for random normal from friends. Failed to join group.
Invite again. That player is busy.
Bing! You're in group.
Queue for dungeon
wait...
wait...
wait...
wait...
Leave queue. Requeue.
wait...
wait...
wait...
BING! loading dungeon.

That's not an anomoly, that's a fairly common first few minutes in ESO and most of that has been around since I started playing 5 years ago. Everything except the broken login, which they "improved" last year.

EDITED: I think another glaring example of lack of competence is ZOS's demonstrated inability to balance their game. I get that MMOs make tweaks to skill and gear every patch as the game progresses, but those are tweaks -- not the massive, absurd swings we've seen in the last 6 months. I've been playing MMOs for 20 years and have never seen a legacy skill or item nerfed by 70% after 5+ years. That's unheard of and a clear indicator that the development team is in over their heads.

Maybe it's lack of budget but I'm guessing ZOS isn't hiring the skill level needed to maintain the game.