"The pruning is also not urgent". What?!?! Of course it's important. You are having trouble as a large bot army user i assume, so you aren't making "enough" profit. However, no NEW people, who might drive the price of the coin up, are going to get into the game if it takes weeks to sync up. The pruning is surely of equal importance, and I know they are working on it.
I am talking to bigminner, not snailbrain =)
These two items probably share equal importance. The pending problem is enough to likely frustrate new players. So lets say the pruning occurs and people can now play the game within minutes/hours instead of days/weeks. All these new players join, get attacked by the armies, and suddenly they can't play anymore because their wallets have double spend issues. Then the game starts losing new players.
The pruning is needed to hopefully attract new players. The pending issue fix is needed to retain them.
I agree. And it seems like they are working on both, so all is well.