Martin Anward, a developer working on Stellaris once said something that I think could be relevant here (I think it was him who said it). The point was, that players are very good at finding out what is wrong with a specific mechanic, they can be helpful in pinpointing how and why it is broken. However, the player (collectively) are really bad on giving ideas on how to fix the broken mechanic they just helped bring to light. So, I think it could be a good idea to come to some sort of agreement on what we want from the mechanic, and let them (Larian) come up with a way to do it.
Shouldn't you have concluded, "We should show them what is wrong with a mechanic and not offer solutions"? You are doing what Martin said we're bad at.
The reason we are really bad at giving a solution is we don't have 1/100000 the details of all the mechanics and how it all works in code. We can suggest something that is virtually impossible for them to do at this or any point.
