The worst part is everyone knows why the animals wont work but Rockstar is dragging their feet on lowering the server capacity so hard they are making trenches. They already have a limit on how many posses can be in a single server it's 4 from what I've heard so just limit it to 15 people.
Ah... put it this way. I play Red Dead adn Fallout 76. Fallout 76 pisses me off a whole lot less than RDR does. It has plenty of bugs but none of them are as obnoxious or get int he way of doing what I love in the game like RDR's problems do. And FO76 crashes less on me! Hell, FO76 in general doesn't piss me off with its bugs (well other than a huge one that affects PC only but Bethesda better fucking get on it cause it's a gamebreaker <- allowing hackers to steal other people's stuff. I'm not playing just in case even though I'm on console and part of me also thinks that I shouldn't in sympathy with the PC players). Hell, RDR now does this thing where if I Have to change servers or I log off and later come back, I have to quit hte game first (and do the long reload again) or I end up in an infinite load loop.
It's frustrating cause after the first career add ons (trader/collector/bounty) I could tell I could have a lot of fun in the game. But now the game just pisses me off. I guess I still have hope cause I"m still trying to get that husky in case they ever fucking redeem it.
But Rockstar does not fix things unless it affects selling gold bars/shark cards. If it doesn't make it too easy to get gold bars they don't care (notice they fixed collector trade cause it was too easy to make money, at least from their POV. PErsonally I thought it was a lot of fun how it was balanced before but now I barely bother with it. I don't mind they fixed it that it is hard to predict. But I have noticed it was a lot more likely to find something even without using maps before and now you rarely find stuff).
(and this is why pay for convenience/pay to win/microtransactions are a cancer on games... I'd say chasing the money for those are actually a big fault of why both FO76 and RDR have big issues.. cause they developers don't care as long as it doesn't affect the MT sales and they have to do so low effort to make MT sales. Just make the game balanced in order to push people to pay to fix the game).