gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin?

Yeah but I'm not sure a whole batch of Tespia would be required in order to fix those bugs. Granted, forgetting a whole npc for the balrog quest was a stupid move, and their fault. Something they should fix ASAP once discovered, I really don't think a Tespia phase was needed to prevent that. Same thing with the tokens being dropped by the newts. They fixed that after like, 2 days didn't they? lol

Still, as you said, there are more important bugs like pirate skill sounds which aren't still fixed, and there were a lot of other bugs like the CWKPQ bug introduced with 0.77 patch anyway, so mine were just some examples.