That shows how the community can achive something...Relic would never have bothered with that bug.
Assuming for a moment, that I accept your premise, that doesn't give any coherent way to make progress.
It was a game breaking bug that could be fixed, a straight binary yes/no condition
Very few of the issues we have left in the game are open to such easy evaluation.
Assume that the game would be balanced if Panthers cost 150 fuel, Cpt Price Method doesn't give you anyway of achieving that goal