It’s a matter of ratio and perspective.
Far more people are affected by the changes we make to the wardec system than are affected by postponing the alliance tournament while we look at how to execute on it more effectively.
It’s a matter of prioritization, and a matter of wanting to make sure that we execute on the AT correctly in future, with full intent on making it the best that it can be.
Then you can look at it another way.
If we decided to run with the AT again this year and it was a case of “same ■■■■, different year” in terms of content because of a lack of time to iterate, with the potential for substantial technical issues due to out of date tools for the same reason, the outrage around having a tournament fail in a live environment with people actively competing after months of preparation would be orders of magnitude larger than choosing to postpone ATXVII so that we can execute on it properly down the line.
It’s not rocket science, ironically.