My point is, you may be asking them to implement bugs not fixes.
The eq designers had to make significant changes to NPC aggro after Velious had already been out for three months.
Heres what I found:
Velious goes live in December of 2000, then three months later in Feb 2001 : NPC Aggro is significantly retuned (Feb. 21)
Here is a snip from the
Patch Notes :
"We've also re-evaluated ways that players have to reduce their own hate. While spells in place to allow this are OK, the Evade skill (possessed by rogues) let them out of their damage too easily. A rogue that successfully evaded would immediately drop to a level of hate lower than someone who was in
the awareness range,
but hadn't done anything to really upset the creature such as damage it or heal its foe. This problem was exacerbated by the increase of the size of the hate list implemented with Velious."
And the next
patch:
"Fixed a bug that would cause NPCs to add too much "temporary hate" when a player would sit down in front of them."
So the sitting down in front of Vindi, was indeed a bug.