As much as I appreciate your critique of the process and the effort that went into it, the current plan is for the survey DS to be awarded on the timeline I laid out above.
This is why I confirmed my understanding before I wanted to express any thoughts or feelings.
There is no timeline, and you did not provide a timeline, except to say, "Sometime after this date" It could be that date, it could be three years after that date. It was a dodge to the question.
Which already is telling in the fact that this question was asked august 30th with no answer until I posted something today. If the question couldn't be given a priority to answer, and the stated rewards are not equally as important as the feedback to illicit them. it creates a lot of unkind feelings in me that this process was not thought-out and planned from inception to resolution and instead thought out of "we will do a survey and offer Dragon stamps" and anything past that was "we will work that out later". I fully recognize that it's still ****'s amazon "I work in logistics brain" and I have been trained for nearly a decade to plan out such logistics and pitfalls within every aspect of my 40+hr week; but
Hope is not a plan. It doesn't create a timeline and it doesn't lead to resolution. It leads to balls getting dropped, people developing feelings, gossip in private corners of the organization, and then a sense or creation of poor planning creates emergencies that were completely avoidable.
I can empathize that this project is even more work for Arc. When having this idea for the project, these pitfalls
especially the workload, spoons, forks, sanity and free time - should have been considered as tangible very likely to occur barriers and tackle concepts and resolutions to prevent them before they occurred. Instead, we are here and the current "plan" is that at an unspecific time, someone will tackle a 15second copy paste email and then dump this problem on the DS Team and then say "oh we gave the DS Team the list, you'll have to ask them how long it will take to award" with complete disregard to their spoons, forks, sanity, free time - all the while the players are the ones who are told "eventually" with noncommittal answers and wait and wait for things to someday happen. Dollars to donuts, give albert access to the feedback google doc and it
would shock me if Albert wasn't done with it by the end of the week.