Game Crash, No Rejoin Option

Jay Frechette, Apex Legends community manager, in his post on Reditt, specifically said:

"We are currently not pursuing (reconnect) for a couple reasons

1. It opens a lot of risk for players to abuse it.

2. We believe the resources needed to build, test, and release it are better spent focused on fixing stability issues so that the feature isn’t necessary."

Of course his reason number 1, that people could abuse it... is ridiculous. No popular game with a PVP match reconnect feature removes the player from the world or makes them immune to game consequences because they disconnect, not LoL, not PUBG, not any game I'm aware of. If they disconnect. In LoL, they "mindlessly walk back to spawn", and in PUBG they just stand still, lacking any player input. In both cases, they can be killed, quite easily in fact. In neither case is disconnecting creating an abusable advantage.

However, reason number two is quite sane. If you get to choose between either:

a. fixing the bugs that cause 98% of crashes and disconnects, and

b. putting in a reconnect feature so people get to push the button to reconnect 5 times a day, which would you pick?

I'd take option-a every time.