to preface:
the codebase we were left with after the fork was a barebones litecoin 0.8 fork, we had nothing to do with the original creation and couldn't have initially decided the difficulty retarget.

that being said, yes, it isn't hard to implement one -- in fact, we did, in the test branch -- but we aren't willing to deploy it immediately, the reasons being that we were:
1. waiting for exchanges to come back(they're back now, wow)
2. are now waiting on cloverhash to be finished(initial implementation is, tooling around it(pools) is not)

after the experience of the first fork, we want to deploy as many changes to the network as we can at once, as to avoid this mess ever happening again, so what we'd want to ideally deploy at once is:
* cloverhash PoW
* KGW retarget
* new client based on litecoin 0.10
* segwit?

now, if you were looking at the github, you would know two of these are very much coming to fruition, and slowly, but surely, will be deployed on the network.
i want to get these done as quickly as possible, but i'm not the greatest programmer of all time, so let me do my friggin' work and get some cool shit up.

i'll leave you with this.