I see, so I really shouldn’t even bother. Makes me sad; I love and live this game; it is an intrinsic part of my therapy (quite literally). Anyway, I guess I’ll just stop posting futile prayers and thereby sparing you folk with my echo-less rants.
Thanks for your attention and time.
Well to be honest no one know for sure what the dev(s) do or do not read, but today IS Halloween so the picture was appropriate. 
Though it certainly does feel liked it is the case, even more so since they came up with the Age/Chapter system. It feels more like they are just doing whatever they want regardless of what the payers actually ask for / care about.
I’m losing the faith and the drive to post either way, seems like no one cares anyway.
Even before that they kinda sucked compared to a geared human fighter thrall. I’ve always been mad about the pets in this game. I prefer them to human followers but they REALLY DO need to rework pets from the ground up. Maybe not an ARK breeding system but certainly we SHOULD be able to make them armor and/or give them food buffs and elixirs that will make them comparable to human thralls. There should also be a chance to get a “named” version of a pet that is even better than the “Alpha” one you can sometimes get. Or, it might be cool to have a training regime that can result in that or even better pets overall.
Certainly something better than to nerf their strength and ability to shrug off damage, then leave them in that sorry state. Even Thunderfoot is a shadow of his former self.