Caravan fix and mechanical change of death penalty are totally different parts of server and are held by different people.
Caravan not sending to BG is an error that is already fixed by builders, but it waits split to be fixed on live server, since making update to fix few minor bugs is a tedious process and it's better to combine it with other big changes (split itself). Also, since many areas are reintroduced, those transition points are already marked to these new areas, thus, fixing something now that will eventually be totally remade in nearest future is waste of time.
Meanwhile, xp/level penalty for death, is dev stuff since only they can check if that's even doable and if that require tons of coding/deciphering original game code (which, i hope, is not blackboxed).
So, your point is a bit wrong since things you mentioned are not related to each other directly.