I think those kind of people got what they wanted in SH3
SH3 was a real parade game. Just purdy up the tart and make her pucker her lips so she passes inspection, get good reviews etc. Then to hell with the underlying simulation, as long as it puts up a good act for about 14 days.
Besides taking a solution doesn't last 30 mins in SH3, it perhaps lasts 3 minutes unless you use MCI, then you need maybe 1 minute. ITs just CUMBERSOME solely because the SH3 team didn't build the game for it properly. If they had thought a little about the design, they would have gotten it much better.
They left many things open for modding. So let us just assume they deliver SHIV in equally poor condition, we could fear that they still wouldn't give us a SDK so we could PROPERLY fix the game once and for all.
Besides just sinking ships gets boring. Its like playing an EA games were you get rewards for breathing air, basically, and unlockables for blinking. Gamers are afraid of challenges nowadays....