Not certain where they are, but I'm sure they'll still be added. Nintendo just likes to Animal Crossing New Horizons Items trickle feed material. Very slowly.

Nah, it was said by Aya Kyogoku (manager of this and new leaf, which nintendo sadly do not know) and Nogami that the upgrades could be affected by covid, which explains why they needed to slow down.

New Leaf came out in Nov 2012. Thats about 7 decades of potential development but its just like they did not begin until the Switch published (I understand AC and Splatoon share some folks but still). I dont find them adding a great deal more to the main gameplay formula. More like they'll concentrate on fine-tuning existing features and construct up/polish them. Loosely linked to AC but anybody else miss My Sims?

Remove is the wrong word. They simply didn't re-implement themyet. If they might have with keeping the same development period they could have.

You think that they took the 3DS code for Animal Crossing New Leaf, copy and pasted it for New Horizons for the change, and then deleted code?

They needed to produce the vast majority of the game from the bottom up. Developers weren't spending time removing attributes, they had been spending some time adding attributes.

The group that really does AC did Splatoon and Splatoon two, and also updated New Leaf with the welcome amiibo update which was large.

And I think you are misunderstanding my comment. I didn't indicate they did nothing but develop NH for 7 years. That is clearly obviously dependent on the finished product. I had been somewhat making the contrary statement actually. That it's weird that the game feels half baked since they had 7 years between titles, even with some of the team on other endeavors.

I really like NH but it's the first animal crossing game I have beaten regarding paying off my house before we even made to buy Animal Crossing Items autumn.