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The way I look at it, it's a division of labor/trust issue, always has been and always will be. The people who generally make it to the LAT are specialists, and generally very good at what they do (with the exception of Zero33, who was very good at applying for jobs). Thus, they have plenty of hard work to do, saving the world and looking at the big picture, and those few who have upload rights are generally the busiest of all - it's nice to Say the door to the playerhouse in modtown1.nw at 32,45 uses the darkgray that blocks instead of the identical darkgray that doesn't block, but when you're revamping the system NPC to handle database access to decrease the overhead-per-player, you don't really have time to open that level, retile that doorway, move the warp, open the interior level and set the warp to be that much smoother, even with the intervening steps of "Save each level, open WS_FTP, connect to the server, upload, go to those levels and say Update Level" removed.
Fortunately, there are lots of people who have plenty of time to do these sorts of things. But we can't all be trusted with upload rights - one of us would go all Chimpy and set a warp over the entire level to send people directly to jail just for mischief. So we just point it out, and maybe, just maybe, if it's easy enough, the next time someone with upload rights happens to be fixing the level anyway - maybe they're adding a playerhouse, maybe they're fixing a sign, who knows? - they glance at the boarded-up doors and go "Oh, right, those". And it's fixed.
Or, now that I think about it, maybe they can just program the weapon to, for the absolutely most trustworthy people, edit, upload, and update the level with the boards permanently adhered. With the necessary checks to prevent misfires, of course - easy enough to detect the tiles around. |