It must be especially painful for people who are content creators and either so invested or so fond of the game that they made this their topic… to see how it’s going.
Kudos to her for trying to be civil and start meaningful suggestions.
But this one is concerned it is too late.
Ever since the proud declaration that no one asked for a certain batch of changes, but then they prioritized those unwanted (and poorly received) alterations over fixing long standing bugs or making actual clamored for changes…
That was when this one realized that there is no voice that will be heard by the masters of this house. They don’t care. They either have a vision and are making the game according to their whims, which are whims that source from a person who does not play… Or they are deliberately driving players away to get them ready to go to Dune.
While this one would love to blame certain punching bags, it seems even they are no longer consulted nor their counsel heard.
Simply put, offering constructive feedback at this point seems basically useless.
The forums are a social location and fun to interact on at times, but nothing of merit will come about here. How often does anyone deign to respond from on high? How often are we expected to go to one of their actual social medias for news and announcements.
This is just a toxicity containment facility with the occasional player helping or arguing with player.
Pity too, because the game has it within comparatively easy reach to be most excellent. But instead of fixing the problems and developing according to strengths, they develop to aggravate and highlight problems (living settlements, as implemented on test servers currently, is a spotlight bright on poor server performance, lack of thrall pathing, and inability of the game to process everything that is going on).