The time has passed but it is not working.
When the previous development team failed in totality, I swore that no making myself clown by continuously covering up the ungrateful devs' blunders, will ever happen any more. So I will now tell truthfully - the Wizard Developer estimate for getting the exchange system working was too optimistic. He has met and beaten his estimates repeatedly so many times that I came to expect this would be realistic as well. It wasn't.
Nothing else is broken except that since I am totally reliant of the estimates, if they don't hold, my actions such as writing to this thread and closing the google DB are out of place. After living through estimation errors of 8 months in a 1 month project, we can easily live with this. I am just frustrated and promised that this time I say it
We will review the situation first thing tomorrow morning. The Wizard Dev and me are in agreement that this estimation error was the first failure so far in the project. The current progress is visible in the game url, but there is no reason for anyone to test it now as we well know what the missing issues are at the moment.
And of course it was partly my fault as well....