Again, it'll come down to complaints and numbers. But I'm getting the feeling that it'll take at least 3-5x as many complaints about the non cutable scenes for them to make a change, vs the change they made as a result of complaints about being pressured TO watch them.

In all honesty, I had not heard of anyone actually complaining about this at all. It's... annoying, yes, especially for first time users. And going back to the inn to watch the stuff just doesn't feel the same. But I fixed this by asking some friends of mine to run this unsynched so we could watch it all. Praetorium is the one that you need to watch the most to get the story, and that's the one we did. I've also seen people making PFs just so they can do a full watch run, as well. Thus, this was a solution that wasn't a problem except for a few.
Now it's a problem that's a problem.
And from the response, it looks to me like they're not interested in changing it back. Just... up the rewards.