Well, whatever the underlying reason, it's time for some serious communication.
PDX not communicating on performance or AI is a form of communicating in itself.
It means they are either not able to fix it, or do not get the resources to fix it.
Either way, the result for us players stays the same.
I have a hard time believing these are dev decisions as opposed to corporate decisions.
If money is all they care about, I would gladly pay for an AI/performance DLC that significantly improves
the game and makes the corporate bobo's happy.
At this time, without mods, the game would be not worth playing for me. I use 104 mods, a lot of which
are visual mods but also EDAI or Starnet depending on what type of game I want to play.