Can I ask why Creative Business Unit 3 are radio silent on the issue of Forked Tower?

[Valence]

The excessive body checking is imo SE's attempt to further ignore the problem of party sustain and mitigation becoming too powerful.

It's been an arm's race since Stormblood and ShB. Remove party sustain, remove resource scarcity, add more and more instant trump cards and tools to survive, reduce battle system difficulty to peanuts until the only thing remaining to increase difficulty is on the encounter's side.
And you still get people that defend that tooth and nails somehow (see threads about tanking and healing for example).

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Can I ask why Creative Business Unit 3 are radio silent on the issue of Forked Tower?

They're too busy spamming the queue to enter it :P

[Carin-Eri]

it's playable now... clearable too. Apparently they'll address "community feedback" this Friday during the LL.

That'll be a tricky one for them address since the "feedback" is opinions that are, basically, split 50/50.