Chivas said:
I doubt very much that all the COD modelers are working on the next game.
Like so many aspects of this game, we simply have no idea, none.
I have no doubt they have a portion of the team working on the next sim, but the majority have to be still working on COD,
Again, we have no idea.
considering the amount of work still required to finish the sim.
...on this we can agree

...but it doesn't follow that because there's a lot to be fixed, it will be fixed. There may be a strong element of 'cutting losses' with this one and moving on to a re-vamped version asap. It might depend on what publishing and financing agreements are in place, and also on sales figures, cut-offs etc.
Or they might be sorting it all out, and introducing the missing dynamic campaign and dynamic weather, and re-doing the lnsdscape for the existing game. Again, we have no idea. But I'm not overly optimistic on previous evidence.
Ben