I perfectly understand your point regarding prematurely released stuffs

You'd be harassed with flames and too much questions at once if things were going awry due to the complexity implied. You'd have to open up your own hot-line!!
Already had a look at the roster stuff but it is of no use for this matter. For the textures management , it's kinda like a remnant of good ol' SH3 (you can find so much of SH3/SH4 now useless files scattered everywhere it's frightening as to how much the devs were organized

!)