Opinion Rant: I think I just found a reasonable reason why we are not getting Snow Depth.

"samlyt22;c-16506994" wrote:
They never claimed the snow depth was about a trade off or focusing on other areas. They said that the visual quality of TS4 is higher than other versions and they couldn't find a good way to do snow depth and have it up to TS4 visual standard.

From what I understand, some people think they should have worked on it until they had deep snow that could work with the visual standard of TS4, instead of what they did do, which is... well, we don't actually know yet :D