Top priority isn't just an outward-facing thing we say to you guys; it means the same thing to the dev team as well. I'll quote Chris just for visibility's sake:
Regarding the skills bug: This is our highest priority right now and we understand how incredibly frustrating it can be. I died to it yesterday as well, I feel your pain. As pointed out already here in the thread, fixing this issue is something we want to do right to not include more bugs with it. That means it's taking a bit longer than we want but the dev team is hard at work to fix this. We're also planning to add other fixes to that patch, which hopefully will have a positive impact for everybody.
Thanks everyone for your patience as the team works on resolving this.