The Dark Knight megathread has somewhere around 400-500 pages with good discussions and requests. Some badly needed QoL got implemented up to two expansions later after it had been discussed and mentioned ad verbatim (Dark Mind now having physical mit, Missionary now usable in lv70 ultimates as parity with GNB), with many good requests to QoL and having meaningful gameplay which we lost since 5.0 never seeing the light of day.

The 1000+ Healerstrike megathread ultimately amounted to <kupo!>-all and basically nothing. No meaningful changes except Esuna being instant now. Various high-end duties still somehow designed and balanced with Lv80 or Lv90 healer kits in mind, if not outright done without healers. We got a toolkit that would allow us to heal next expansion's first savage with no further additions, probably even just with what will end up iLv790 savage gear in AAC Heavyweight.

Meanwhile last time they caused a legitimate shitstorm by removing ice paradox, just like now we had a ton of Black Mage threads and social media posts pop up telling how bad it is. That actually got resolved and we were VERY happy.

Sorry, but as much as you and Creative Studio III wants to tell us that feedback is likely more recognized from megathreads, currently there is precedence for the opposite to be true.

Maybe, JUST MAYBE, they should not have said basically nothing in the liveletter, be de facto silent about it and actually communicated with us what's to come with Black Mage, just like how they did in 6.3 with Paladin.

Are other things important too? Yes. But if they don't want to communicate well with their playerbase and just do their own thing, then so will the players by making 30 threads on Black Mage.