The team has been working non stop on big updates for the past year, it takes time and sacrifices. The backend changes to support the future of Skyblock is the biggest project ever done on Hypixel. Its almost ready for phase 1. Several posts were made about it, its a big risk to do big updates because it comes at a cost: loss of players during dark times and loss of income. Fortunately we have been technical enough to predict these losses to cover the development during these bad times and we are almost out of the waters. Cosmetic skin sales gives us just enough to keep pushing development. Believe what you believe, I have run this for 12+ years and I know the team is doing the right thing for long term prosperity of the server. If we were to think only short term we wouldn’t be here. We could have done 10 updates for short term gain, but we invested in proper long term updates to support insane future content. If you ever run a server or business in your life you might understand. Decision like these are not easy and require a strong team and financial backing.