Quick question.

Righty almighty boys and girls, question time.
Johnathan just spent 3 weeks making sure that the checkpoints are properly placed so we cannot double loot drop and so on while this is early access and we will have economy wipe so no one cares if we have 8 billion mirrors as it would be even more beneficial to test even mad builds so we can be ready.

So the question is why not focus on adding all the stuff first and then balancing on the stuff we can provide before the proper launch but rather add smaller bits and then balance the same thing 20 times?

This is a really unique approach when it comes to programming, and the only validity I can find personally is when you get paid by the hour, so you can abuse the system a bit, but it has no practical logic in this case.