In fact sneak was really alike how its described in that post for a while, until Haynar and others thought it was not true, because on live, they couldnt reproduce, and yet we are supposed to live in a classic timed server meaning live is not a reliable source of information as on live there has been a lot of changes and many were hidden from update logs.
bottom line they felt it was overpowered and too easy to be allowed to be here.
also lots of info here
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...ighlight=sneak.
Clearly live now sneak is different from classic EQ and yet we are following live.