A Working Temple of Balthazar?
Out of curiosity, what was the reply to his bug report?
Poor craftsman blame their tools. Poor players blame their Engineer.
The Fractal dungeon does let you buy shards. But only if you grind up fractal tokens to buy them, your karma is useless there.
As for the Temple, FOTM has depopulated Orr by being a better place to earn coin and the only place to earn Ascended gear. So don’t expect to ever see the temple open unless a guild decides to open it for themselves.
Either this is all intentional on ANET’s part, or they weren’t paying attention to how players behave in other MMOs. Believe whichever you want.