Well I for one wouldn't mind previewing the newest development changes while there is still time to tweak them. Once they are on the production servers (you're fooling yourself if you think what we have now is anything short of production) we are stuck with the changes.

I'm sure they have a good QA team, but commenting on whether or not developmental changes are a good idea, are well-conceived, or are pretty to the eyes is not part of a QA's job description. All they care about is if the actual changes reflect what they are told has changed. This is how it is with every QA team I have had the pleasure of dealing with. In a way, they need us to do what QA does not. That is, offer an end-user perspective on their ideas and planned changes. The surveys are good, but there are many different ways a survey's results can be implemented into the game. Some of which are good, and others which are not so good. Who better to say what would please the players than we who actually play the game?