Quote Originally Posted by Bobzitto View Post
You sure put a lot of words in my mouth there. I like how the other side is "complaining" while you are "providing feedback". You can complain all you want. Like the people pre-5.0 did, I assume (wasn't here, wouldn't know). The truth of the matter is that we don't know how much feedback is taken into account by SE when they make their decisions. If they made this change mainly for balance and streamlining reasons, I doubt you'll see it reversed. If they did it for feedback reasons, then I HIGHLY doubt you'll see it changed.
I don't mean to but words in your mouth but that's how it's sounding when you say "adapt or die" but are also saying "people didn't like the way it was and said so so they changed it".

A complaint is feedback, i was not really intending on trying to paint a distinction; and it is likely the majority of the feedback you're going to get because the people who like what you're doing are rarely going to coem back and say "good job" because you're supposed to be making a product they like in the first place. Positive feedback only really comes when you do something particularly ground breakingly good in the eyes of that person. It actually means that unless you're running a proper control group feedback can never really be trusted, which is why you often find developers not acting on it because it isn't necessarily representative. The people who don't find a problem with it aren't going to post "everything is fine" and are going to be enjoying the actual product itself.