You could say it, but it would be complete nonsense and wrong, where as its perfectly true that you could log a hook request [or two] in 5 minutes.

Aye but you could of as well! I'd imagine you could easily do the same and probably quicker since you may possibly remember removing them and know exactly what hook to request and where!

I was trying to in a "beat around the bush" type of way hint that someone being told what to do with their spare time is sorta a slap in the face, and even more so when you're being told to do something you should not be doing based on a silly decision by upper management... a decision that hindered the primary system allowing customization to a product purchased more so than not solely on that merit or belief there of! How many threads have we seen on here and then also on vb.com where someone has purchased vB5 to only find out later it can't be used as they thought, wished, etc? There's more of those threads then mod threads for vB5, it speaks volumes :p.

I personally would have no issue with logging a hook request. If I'm spending hours developing a mod to make my forum do what I want, what would an extra five minutes be to get my hook into the product release so I don't have to manually put it in every upgrade. I'm just happy to see that they are willing to give a little to make it easier to build the mods in the first place.

Everyone is different, that's where we differ which is fine and why myself and Paul seems to have went meh bleh to each other regarding this subject, just a matter of opinion :cool:. Years ago I thought like you, now I simply don't, over time as they say but again we may always differ "to each their own". I'm still baffled as to why it was hacked and slashed to begin with, still makes no sense especially now with it being re-implemented/improved upon again, seems like we went back a few notches and aren't moving forward in a very productive manner, instead just going back to zero every so often :(.

I logged three in under five minutes last week, as I'm converting the backend vb.com extensions we have to start using hooks.
(I also added the hooks, in 4.2.4 ;)). I expect to be adding more (and other related changes) as I get to actually using it for stuff.