Where does the mentioned feedback actually come from?

[Zarkovitch]

Def not the forums, because the forums are a echo chamber and SE do not care the about the english department.

[Absurdity]

Raiding scene; the smallest group. Not saying they're not important but that's who essentially complained about buff exclusivity and windows. Square has gone overboard listening to that group, to the detriment of the non-raiding population.

And it wasn't even technically the "raiding scene", it was a small subgroup within that scene. The people who want the prestige of raiding and to swing their "achievements" around like they're compensating for something, but don't actually want to put any of the work in to achieve it. The kind of people that looked at 90 and 180s buffs and instead of figuring out how to align them properly they wanted them gone.