...and whose voice very likely never gets heard within Larian's halls.
Oh, I'm sure they hear plenty of voices.
It's just not always easy to respond diplomatically to someone whose big idea is to either remove the tadpoles or the Absolute. Personally, I don't even know how to humor that. In my opinion, it's not just a bad, dumb idea, it's actively harmful to the intellectual property.
I don't know if the suggestion is meant to be taken seriously or not. It doesn't feel like it's meant to be helpful, at least it doesn't feel that way to me.
But all I can do is accept it as someone else's subjective opinion, note my disagreement, and move on.