I have spent the last year on trying to drop elten :( so many hours that I can't count and I still don't have it.

Never because "it is inconsistent with the vision of the game" of someone from PA.

After all these years, they still don't understand that trying to get something that has a drop chance of 0.02% is pointless.

If all treasures had pity pices there would be some reason to play. So I'm just afk fishing for the event and I'm playing something else at the same time. But PA doesn't see a problem with this: for them I am a player who "plays" and increases the counter of "active" players.

Tbh i think it will get implemented. they have reverted so many of their statements and against their "vision" of the game. introduction of marni for example. then afterwards they explicitly stated to NEVER increase it to more than an hour. a few months later they increased it substantially. pity pieces for other things got implemented as well as "pity" enhancing soon. so there is in my opinion a really good chance they will sooner or later implement the same for the compass as well.