Serious digging was needed because he does not have the source. Any devs could easily profile the game during loading and that sscanf or strlen would be at top

Serious digging was needed because he does not have the source. Any devs could easily profile the game during loading and that sscanf or strlen would be at top Maybe they saw sscanf and assumed it is normal that it takes time, but more likely there were so much stuff to do and somehow no one checked