One has to realize that it was a GM doing such things I think. Don't assume GM's are capable of doing all the code work needed for confectioner or bug fix things. They may not know a thing other than people skills and how to entertain the customers. That's their job after all, or fix in game issues they can easily handle with a /set gold X or /teleport X to XYZ. That and report bugs as players run into them on live servers or deal with "He said I did," and "Their lying because he did this and I said that" situations.
It's good to see the GM's playing with the tools. I hope they can run events for us soon! Have some WA raids on a wide scale rather than one city. That could help the lag if it divides our forces up.