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That, is actually rather helpful. Much more-so than the END OF DAYS/ACCEPT IT going on. I will say, however, I've always felt that playing with a 1hander always felt far more fluid than using a 2hander, which would most likely be explained by me playing so much native. Though it sounds like the formula has already assigned individual values, but probably not in the way you are speaking about.
Presumably you mean, since you said that the devs once thought of hand assigning variables:
turnRate = (formula)
Is now:
turnRate = (Previously thought out number)
If I had to guess, going in by hand and assigning the variable not by formula, but testing is a far better alternative. However wary, I have faith.