The Devs need a much needed thanks!

[Silverbane]

Wildstar was decent and fun to play.... and then they started listening to the player base.

after that it really went off the rails in so many bad directions. one reason I still firmly believe the show runners need to stick to their vision, in the case of this game, stick to what has worked for this long, discard what hasnt.

The two aren't incompatible. as you probably know.
You can listen to the playerbase, and still decide to not do what the vocal portion of the playerbase wants.
After all:

• we players typically desire everything, for free, and right now -- although the more mature of us moderate those desires in light of our perception of the limitations the devs face.
• we players want contradictory things, as well. Even an individual player can have contradictory desires, to "have their cake and eat it too," but the more common scenario is that some want one thing, and others want the exact, incompatible opposite.
• we players, even those of us with software and systems experience, typically have no experience or knowledge with the technologies and challenges involved in implementing a world-wide real-time massively-multiplayer online game. So we can only guess at what the devs can do, we don't really know.

We players are very much like children in these regards, and accordingly the devs should listen and keep our remarks in mind -- as they stick to their vision.
They have proven that they know how to make a successful MMORPG, and we haven't.

Later:

saying "its impossible" I think can be often translated as "we cant do it now" ... So I dont look at it as an outright falsehood, but more along the lines of "we cant do that in the present system"

"Impossible" can also mean "the resources we would need to do that are committed to other things," where resources can be anything and everything from employees to rack space at the data centers. Such resources often cannot be increased quickly, for reasons such as "good programmers are hard to find," "integrating new people into the team takes months," "upgrading the cooling system at the data center takes months," "relocating to a new datacenter because the old one can't be upgraded takes years" ... you get the idea.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen all at once. Sometimes, that sucks.