That why I really wish, Larian would talk more with us. We would really need to know, what their plans regarding skill tiers will be.
Absolutely. Trying to telegraph the importance of that for years now. Hoped it would be slightly better after the DOS2 KS, but sadly not.
At least the really important bricks like the, sadly, really problem causing armor/protection system, and so on, should be discussed.
A lot of devs commonly write in their forum, that's great, but not even needed. At least a compact, coordinated wrapup post every week addressing concerns/goals and related proposals would already help.