I wasn't here for the new race. Although those kinds of features would presumably be readily available for modifying in the engine itself - the stuff normal devs do. And I know until the time I left where there were enough devs such that there was consideration to move a dedicated developer to the global servers. I want to say they couldn't get anyone willing to come. I trust that connections and so on are likely rigged into a packaged block of boiled-down netcode abstracted from the developers. Without a dedicated engine programmer there's likely little way to mess with this. The new race looked bad, but I think it was done to try amd get people to play and generate revenue than to come with a proper race release; halflings were alluded to be on their way in the game lore since launch, and even more so given the Giant lore.