And in the end you still did not play the new patch or any future version of the mod so either you play it before you judge or otherwise GTFO as nobody's asking you to stay. The Devs know exactly what they want to do and they will do it no matter if 5 little omg realismcool boys start crying.
I know I'm feeding the troll here, but take a look at their forums. It's obvious that 90% of the posters there don't want to see manual bolting go. So the amount of people on their forum who don't care which direction RnL is taking is far from "the silent majority".
I don't see how staying quiet and withholding criticism will make a product better, perhaps you can tell me. Furthermore, we DID play RnL, and actually liked it (most of us). But what we see here, is that the mod already takes a step away from realism, after just one patch. This goes against what they say on the frontpage,
"We want RnL to be an effective realistic infantry combat simulator". I'm just observing the facts here. Then again, there is no such thing as facts; only "opinions" right?
And Amerikaner has been around for a long time. He knows his stuff, and he kicks ***.