They might seem like guesses to you and Seph but they very well can be well informed guesses, can they not?
Some have given an explanation that is based on how the devs handled other recipes where they actually did tell us the reasoning even tho it seemingly did not make sense at first. To simply dismiss those replies with “not a dev, not good enough” is not very kind. Also Seph’s tone reads like he’s very peed off.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar comes to mind.
Anyway, in my experience when someone makes a wild guess or tries to explain something that is completely wrong then James or another dev most certainly will reply, the fact that they didn’t should then tell you something.
Then there’s this little other thing, it’s impossible for the devs to reply to every single post. Not even all things you write in PM’s will be answered, some will, some won’t (sadly, grmpf! haha), they get tons of PM’s and we do tend to post quite a lot here on the forums too. It would be a day job alone to actually reply to everything. Besides, it’s also the weekend, plus they are working really hard to get the new release out before Thursday!
I’m also wondering what you are even trying to achieve. Why do you and Seph want to know so badly? No matter what the answer will be the chances of it being changed because we don’t like their reasoning is rather non-existent.
What if it is one of the explanations the community already has given, what if it’s “because we felt like it”, etc. then what? You suddenly go “oh, ok, I get it” or would you still be upset it’s not how you wanted it to be because something tells me it’s the latter which is yet another reason to just not give an answer, no matter what they say I highly doubt you will find it satisfactory and it will get a reply from you saying that and will start a back and forth which basically is like asking them to change it and if they don’t want to (which James already said he does not want to) then you would have accomplished nothing at all except wasting everyone’s time and losing your cool over nothing…
So yeah, I am not really surprised they haven’t replied yet…