Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Alleo]

They watch streamers, that's how they take their infos.
Consider that Frosty's podcast on eureka had more or less a positive outlook, so kinda mrhappy and arthars too, If as I suspect they use streamers as an aggregator of ppl for infos it might be possible that idd they are the sources,

Also they clearly read reddit considering the time it took for that post regarding RMT to appear and a reminder from SE to not do that to be posted on the lodestone. They have a problem in telling you about what they are listening but they do listen

But a view streamers do not make a whole playerbase. And reddit itself was pretty negative about it too. There was a thread with over 1000 upvotes and it was really negative. If thats how they get their informations, then no wonder that we got Diadem 2.0..

[Remedi]

But a view streamers do not make a whole playerbase. And reddit itself was pretty negative about it too. There was a thread with over 1000 upvotes and it was really negative. If thats how they get their informations, then no wonder that we got Diadem 2.0..

I was not impliying it's the correct way to do, perhaps it's the lazyest one and frankly I've some bias against doing it. I'd rather not tell my feelings on this since I'd rather not cause drama over something I don't have proof off
However take note that a streamer can hold up to 500 wiewers (well much more but I haven't seen them having that many wiews outside ultimate) each as such the 1k upvotes are quite a small numbers when many streamers are stacked up

Unraleted but regarding horizzonal progress:

From how I see it, we lack inventory space, stats and content for it to be a thing, if you don't change any of these you'll jave ppl just getting whatever gear that has the highest crit that is the avaible on them.