Why do less developed games have this option?

all i can think people will do is this https://twitter.com/Nekoyamakun_VRC/status/1187312658128592896

That would be great, also that with the current ik does not harm the performance of the others

Even without networked IK we could have this if an option to "disable extra trackers" was added.

This is an interesting suggestion, since previously it would have been a flat no for performance reasons, but unless I'm misunderstanding, networked IK may have changed that.

Reason being that before you were sending the data for each tracked point, and every player then had to calculate the IK for those.

Now with networked IK, we calculate our own IK locally, and then send the data for the entire humanoid rig.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but basically adding new trackers should now only add performance costs to the wearer, rather than to everyone else. Everyone else in the room would just be receiving the completed humanoid IK data, same as normal, at zero extra cost.

The biggest point against this right now would simply be how absurdly niche the direct audience for this is, but only in regard to the effort required to implement it. So unless I'm mistaken there, it entirely depends on how hard it is to add to the game, and what else that dev time would be used on.

I'd kill for elbow tracking.

I'm up for it now that I got my brand new gaming PC! GO!

As nice as it looks, I don't think that they would add it, considering that's even more work for their servers to do. The IK is pretty bad as it is, performance-wise. And the lack of letting us use more performance friendly options, well. Yeah. I can't see this coming unless they can get the stick out of their behinds and the cotton out of their ears. (or maybe it's a chip on their shoulder, who knows? They certainly haven't been very transparent)

There's many fixes that users have suggested, but they keep refusing to use the fixes, and performance has been just dropping so much. They're just disabling things left and right instead of actually fixing the underlying issues. (Or simply being a human and publicly admitting their own limitations as programmers)