People speculate that the slow loading was a feature not a bug since the app shows ads during the loading. That being said, the fix is comically small that simply the people they have running that part may be the junior developers who don’t know how hashmaps work.

If this was Apple, the response would be much different. Like the M1 DTK return fiasco, the devs complained about the low gift card price and in the end, Apple paid more.

Imagine going through all that effort into finding a critical vulnerability and developing a zero-click PoC exploit to jailbreak the current iDevice line-up and somehow end up selling it to Apple for $10k.

That is pretty much near to what you are seeing here with the effort into discovering this performance issue and providing a fix for it to Rockstar. Oh well.

You get what you negotiate for, not what you deserve.