[2018] For the sake of the game, please...

I think they could bang out some great stuff in 2-4 weeks if they were allowed to just be creative!

So, 2-4 weeks is really not much time. We could do some bugfixes and maybe one or two tiny things, but 2-4 weeks is I'm afraid not going to get you much.

For context, most of the updates we release have a dev cycle of about 3 months, with the bigger updates taking longer. That time is needed for the design, scriping, graphics, audio and QA and even then we're often really up the the wire with time.

I mean obviously I'm totally on board with me just being given infinite resources and infinite time to just add whatever I would like to the game. But realistically it's sometimes good for someone to be able to shake their head at me and tell me no. ;)

That's quite likely. Looks at certain kickstarted games

You could get a working prototype in that time. Possibly even looking tolerable, but you'd need longer to get the balancing and feel right and to get the full graphics in place as well.

Then of course there's the rewards...