Jagged Alliance 2 has SPM!

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I can understand the people who whine about the turn-based system, especially as the game is called JA2, and supposed to be some kind of remake.
Turn-based and SPM are very different, and while I like both I can see why many people dislikes one of them, and with that name on their game they are now asking for the hate of TB-lovers.

What I really cannot understand is why the devs made the decision to make it SPM only, which will result in some bad reviews for sure, even if the game will be great.
With a working SPM system it doesn't take much effort to create a turn-based mode, and all the die-hard fans would be overjoyed. It was already done in X-COM Apocalypse, actually.