Should the devs appologise to the community

[kaynide]

No;

The only REAL way to create change in a game is for enough people to become unsatisfied enough that it hurts a company financially. As in unsub and move on.

Sure, the game devs want you to enjoy their game, but they really only have whatever statistics they have to steer in the direction that results in the most players doing "a thing". Flawed or not, if a player keeps paying their sub, the devs don't really have any reason to course correct THAT much.

Listening and doing what people say to do on a place like this, full of us armchair game makers, is folly. For every person that wants X, someone else wants not X.

If you want to stay onboard and STILL hope to make change this late in the game's life, you know how they work: If you don't like a particular kind of content, just don't do it. If enough people don't do the thing, they'll stop making "the thing". And if enough keep doing/do more of "that other thing", SE will make more of "the other thing".