It is a known issue with TSW2 that any update download for a route makes for basically the whole size of the route being downloaded again. This is usually avoided by DTG by coupling a lot of fixes for one route and releasing them packed at once. It can however make some simple fixes come extremely late because they're waiting for more fixes coming for a route. The idea is pretty solid - you don't want to download a ton of data for minor changes keeping you from playing the game. A fix is also in planning for the size to be resolved. But what if (in the meantime) there was an agreed-upon time for big hefty updates containing all small and big fixes made in a given period to be downloaded? Let's say all teams made fixes for new and old content, in some cases even singular tiny ones for some of the routes. This would then be coupled with the Roadmap containing all the information about bugfixes in that update. So every other Tuesday you'd know to expect a huge download size along with the release of the Roadmap. The Roadmap would have a section dedicated to the patch notes of that day's update. This would create a regular release schedule for fixes and would take away the need for coupling a huge number of one-route fixes together. For the player, it would definitely mean a large download every 14 days, but we would always know when that's about to happen, know what's in there specifically and could prepare for that (start PC/console) in the morning and let it do its thing during the day for us to play in the evening. A bit of a compromise with a bunch of benefits that might help both parties in the end.
I do agree with this idea. Relatively small fixes take a while to come out because of a large fix isn't ready yet so this could be a good compromise. Plus if dtg publish a notification on when the update is gonna come, it would prepare players for the update every two weeks. The wifi I have is a fixed price $39.99 a month for unlimited downloads/usage so this would not be a problem for me. I feel like dtg is playing updates a bit too safely
