I don't know about that, I'm trying a bit of humor not intended to be harsh on any individual. Really, it's a matter of asking the big questions first and not last. What is the end goal? What does the 3I really look like? How does the Navy function? If we don't set baselines there will always be unrealistic situations. Modern Earth comparison don't always work.
I think every iteration of a re-build has been bias in some fashion (not suggested as negative). Simply, explained Marc wants an interesting environment not bland, boring with cute robots. Everyone has their own take on what that means and works it into their TU. If we don't alter basic world stats for the new rule sets then we accidentally change things that matter (basic canon). There must be a baseline that supports basic canon. If one large item changes by accident (Deneb as a functional capital, Corridor Depot as a military threat to the Vargr and Zho, etc.) then dozens of products loose validity.
I'm just frustrated and undoubtedly not expressing it well.
From my stance, it's TPTB who continually alter the setting with nearly every new publication. I want verisimilitude and feel a continuation of setting is better than constant change.
Add in that with the advent of the "strong central" 3I that much prior setting went out the airlock without a vac suit. Toss in every IN ship, EVER, worked up is either impossible under TPTB rules, or just ridiculous in it's design for military action under, again, TPTB rules. And TPTB both wrote the rules, then pompty ignored them. (HG2/Fighting Ships)
Hence the constant arguments of "setting vs rules". The truth is both the setting, and the rules, are in constant flux. Neither ever really supports the other.
IF, and I say IF, Marc would release CT for further development, many here on CotI could, and I believe would, take up where CT left off, revise a few things that need it, and go with a consistent setting. At that point I believe LBBs would be well written and happily be purchased by many, and profitably, for both FFE and the various writers.
My thought would be a "board" who would vet new works for verisimilitude and canon. I can think of 6 or 8 right now who I believe would be both interested in the project, and capable.
As it stands, one must wonder with T5 and Mongoose, which is going to go the distance and just what canon is going to be a retcon, and what will stick around.
Is it not a fair question to ask just who is in charge and where Traveller is really going? Marc or Matt or are both going to "do their own thing" whatever it might be?
Though Hams has adopted it, I believe it was Marc who coined it:
"It also has to make sense."
Isn't it about time it did?