Currently the bad performance in the PU is hurting everything and everyone. Yes, you can do some things, but it's impossible to play the game like it is meant to be played, especially space combat is almost impossible. Also all testing could go much better, if it wasn't for the performance problems. And I don't think CIG can afford to put another build with such a bad performance to the live servers anyways, as this would be very damaging for the reputation. If you would release a build with very good performance on the other hand, it would probably be very good for the reputation, and the future funding. I personally don't care how long it takes (even if it is another year), or what exactly needs to be changed (replace the Netcode, implement Vulkan, or whatever), but I think the PU performance should be fixed before anything else.