It is more likely they didn’t want to deal with player complaints and noise on lost progress or items because of the player deaths . It was probably easier to

It is more likely they didn’t want to deal with player complaints and noise on lost progress or items because of the player deaths . It was probably easier to reset from a backup than any real difficulty to apply a fix . Same reasons we implement STONITH or just discard a game to restart from a save or use file from backup if it deviated a lot from where we want it to be, rather than fix the corruption so to speak even when possible .