Reading this thread, I'm really not sure where the idea that CBU3 listens to the casual player base and the game design suffered for it comes from. They don't listen much at all. They just make up weird ideas about the players and what we want. Even when we tell them to their face that's not what anyone wanted, they just shrug, give a half-assed excuse, and push through it anyway.

CBU3 is nothing if not insanely stubborn. There are tons of examples of them acknowledging feedback and then shrugging it off or ignoring it.