It's one of those things. It looks so obvious in hindsight, but easily missed at the time. I've worked in software development and seen far worse things than this.
With all the interactions, it speaks to me of either simplifying the game or beta testing. As a player, I'd infinitely prefer the latter, but it will lose cg the ability to have surprise events as stuff is going to leak out of beta testing almost instantly.
Also, I wince every time I see these 'fire everyone, heads on sticks' type of comments. Try a bit of empathy, that sort of stuff is really not on!
