I'm sure theyd want to implement it, but if I remember correctly it was mentioned that this would be difficult to add at this stage? Either way it would do wonders for the performance
Wanting something is still far from being able to something, if amount of work and old stuff breaking is too great, it is just not feasible.
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet but i think we will get new/improved sounds in the next update... http://media-cdn.beamng.com/czedn7GnkLM2o08e sounds different to what we have in the pessima at the moment, at least that's what i think
and that the car doesn't go up in flames from a hit in the rear... ...aaaaaand the sound changing to be more in the front when the exhaust gets damaged enough
I think that is his personal matter. However it is quite common that people move on life changes, etc.
Since 0.16 has been in the works for like 4 or 5 months now, that only tells us something that the update will be spectacular and it will be worth the long wait because the devs have poured a lot of time and effort into working on that update. Also since the latest update (0.15) has been released way back in December, let's hope that 0.16 will drop by the next week or two and all that long waiting will pay off.
I really don't see this being a big update. December to April is fairly standard. Figure they worked hard on a big update last December and decided to throw some little extra things in as mentioned by Nadeox which pushes the update out to early May. I don't anticipate any major surprised being shipped.
Atleast a talk about 4 pixels was still speculating an update. Any talk about the new menus and editor I guess?