Trust me I want to know more too but I assume they want to hide whatever publicly available metrics they look at to try and prevent manipulation. For example, if we KNOW likes matter, or likes matter on JP boards or matter more, we could manipulate that, and that's.. Not Good.

Like I don't want to harass anyone, I do want to better understand why the devs make the decisions they do and how it relates to what feedback, but I also don't want to jeopardize the potential integrity of the process. Not that I assume it's perfectly sound or anything..

It's all just so frustrating.