Grant who? Jk Most startups learn as the go, take gamers who know how to do some code, or in this case gamers who worked on chat engines seeing a way to branch. KaW was born. ATA has had its ups and downs, KaW seemed to be ignored for a while as they attempted to diversify, but now seem to have come back to put their cash cow into new pastures. So nothing has changed from the Pwar exploit and the clone exploits, the botting exploits x30, the referral code exploits to the current event OSF/OAF farming. Devs code, people cheat, devs fix, people want more so devs code...
Yeah, some design teams are good. Others take a cowboy approach with little or no testing or thinking ahead and end up with something like what we have seen here.