Ok, so I’ll weigh in.
As @Macknum stated, there are probably different teams working on different items so it’s not necessarily a matter of prioritizing this over the bugs. Even this has to be tested prior to 1.0 and there are many who are looking for the ladder system so just because I don’t care about it (and I REALLY don’t), that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of people that do.
What would happen if they didn’t do the ladder system until 1.0 and it was not only broken, but broke other stuff as well?
We all know that EHG is already working on the bugs that they know exists and that there is a prioritization scheme for those fixes. But there is likely a specific team working on those bugs and probably not the people that are working on the ladder system. Whether you or I think their bug fix priorities are how we would order them, that doesn’t mean that the other team can’t do what they need to do also.
Just my thoughts and hope you can keep an open mind for the developers and work with them as much as they’ve been supported and supportive thus far.