The saying goes, you can only polish a turd so much, but at the end of the day, its still a turd. In this case, D2 is what it is because of numerous philosophical decisions made by the developmental team. Unless Chris Barrett has freedom to deviate from those decisions, he's going to ultimately be very limited in how much he can actually improve the game. It's like I have always said from the beginning. D2 is going to be harder to fix than D1 because it was developed with a flawed philosophy.