So I've been hodling for quite some time now, even with the coin being more a zombie than alive and I was curious about why it should take that amount of effort to fork it to reduce or remove the hodling period altogether, since it seems that should be an easy change.
I've never touched a cryptocurrency code before, but having quite a few years of coding experience I was curious about the technical difficulties that such change would arise, and why so much time is needed to do the actual changes.
So I've head to the github page and started to look at the commits that made the fork possible, and maybe I'm wrong because I don't know the whole picture of the currency, but the changes that took place to fork from v1 to v2 are trivial.