Polling the players!
False good idea. Polling isn't going anywhere :

- I guarantee you, most people won't answer, because those king of "studies" would have to be done on internet... And let's not lie to ourselves : the forum isn't representative of the playerbase.
- SMN main would answer, but not the people who never tried the job. Why the hell would they ? I mean, if you never played it, how are you going to say "yeeeeah, I would prefer to go for the dots" ? You can't.
- Trolls. Just imagine people like Titanmen answering this king of poll *shiver*

To answer your post in general, and not just this tiny bit I just quoted : I'm a little disturbed by the "old fanbase has to be satisfied first" mentality. That's why I don't agree with your choice to ignore success metrics - they matters, even if we don't always like it. Experienced players don't have the priority, and shouldn't have it.