Originally Posted by Tuco
So maybe complaining repeatedly about shitty design decisions is demonstrably for the better, in the end?

And incidentally, guess what? If the message was well received WAY before (and additional complaints on the same topic weren't needed) all Larian had to do to stop them was to come out and say it.
NO SHIT people will keep pointing the same problems in a game during a prolonged alpha testing, as long as these will go ignored and unaddressed.

This is really the great crime of Larian's approach to this EA. It's created a situation where I'm certain that people who otherwise wouldn't harp on issues so much feel that they have to. We've seen that issues which were complained about, such as backstab and height advantage and surfaces, were removed, with no other explanation given for their removal. So now we have a situation where if there's a dispute about a feature, people could very well feel obligated to speak up about it, because they're aware that if it seems one side of the argument is more popular, then that's the side Larian will listen to. I'm certain that if Larian came out and said they weren't going to change backstab, then a large chunk of the complaining will ultimately fail, save for a couple diehards who are committed to railing against it. But instead they've essentially fostered a trial by combat environment, where if people want something to change, there's only negatives to keeping quiet about it. It's not a healthy way to foster a community.