A major change to that system is not happening this late into development
We will see. What you write would assume that we have seen no change, because no change was made on Larian's end - while it is possible that they have been working on a better implementation of reactions for a long time now, and the system hasn't been finilized enough to show. For a long time there seemed to be no chance for UI to change - and then came Ui overhaul with many positive additions that community has been asking for. Sure, it might not be precisely what "I would do", but it still attempted to address many of my complaints and made playing the game more enjoyable in the process.
Speaking of the UI, with how sidelined the reactions got in new UI, it would be strange if they didn't attempt SOMETHING different with reactions. Right now reactions are buried in a submenu that not many people are likely to be accessing on regular basis or ever. Recent community Managers mention they they are indeed doing some stuff to reactions isn't isolated instance - earlier Sven also mentioned reworking reactions some Panels from Hell back. I genuilly don't have particular expectation as to how this rework might work - but I remain hopeful that they will find some way to address some of the core issues of the current implementation.
Right. I think the point is that if there are major changes to the system they have already been decided on or they are MOSTLY finalized. Plus just about all feedback to major systems has been discussed to death. Does that mean we will see them in EA in one of the upcoming patches? Maybe. Maybe they will just save it and release it with the base game or something like that. But odds are the feedback being given now is not going to dramatically change a system this late in the game.
