How do you want to know, if the majority is against the old system? There is noway in knowing that, because the majority is not in the forum in will never be there. Even the poll about the armor system is hardly representative, also I don't know how easily you could vote more than once in that poll if you really wanted to.
Also you don't know, how many of the pollers ever played the first game, so if they were really able to evaluate the difference.
Pen & Paper games are quite popular and they are pretty much all about rolling dices. Calling the D:OS1 system RNG is just abusing prejudices and misunderstandings.
Forum-made poll is one of the most bias source ever especially with how easy it is to manipulate the result and vote multiple times. If we really want a poll result, have Larian do it.
The matter of people used to playing D:OS1 should not be a factor. Any game industry know that are not supposed to make game that will perfectly cater to the old players, but to try something that capture as many players as possible for it to be successful. D:OS2 did just that.
And from comments I get from people who never played D:OS1 before and just picking up D:OS 2, they all like the system. This comes from a bunch of people that I know avidly play DnD too.
If the majority of your playerbase is liking the game, it's a success, not a fail. Unless they are feeling generous, there is absolutely no reason for Larian to rework the game to cater to old players. The veterans will have to go work on their own mods for that if they hate the current system.
People have already voted with their wallet and we see where the result is. If the armor system is so terrible, it wouldn't have this much player online at all time. The moment they give you the ability to mod the game, they have already given the minority to fix their own issues and they will only step in if the issue breaks the game for the majority of the player and their experience, like Lucky Charm and Reactive armor nerfs.
