Blend material broken

[anton@rebirthviz.com]

Can you seriously not get this fixed. The duplicates is a mess!
3dsmax 2022

[^Lele^]

The compact Material Editor doesn't suffer the same issue.
For the record, there is no impaired functionality in the blend material, it's only cosmetic, only with Slate.
Easy enough to ignore the "_dup" prefixed plugs, which are needed for Nitrous (and should be hidden from the UI. It will be looked into, again.).

[anton@rebirthviz.com]

Its like selling a car with 4 steering wheels, but only one works. Autodesk is obviously the biggest culprit in selling half baked software and calling it new.
hopefully chaos is not following suite.
just ranting

[^Lele^]

A fix *does* exist, it's in a branch, and is being vetted for compliance.
Compliance isn't a given: software design can be tricky, like in this *seemingly* simple case: the fix had to be pulled as something else broke.
You'd be quite wrong to assume laziness, particularly when there are many a version of the host DCC with important updates to each of those in the relevant sections.
We have to dance in step with others, sometimes: it's a car steered by at least two wheels, often by three or four.