The only guaranteed difference** between that hypothetical and what actually happened is that now they have 10x more EA testers, which turns into...bugs being found more quickly and maybe (optimistically) 30% more novel feedback suggestions.
Well.. Unfortunately, it is not working that way.. 10X testers usually means find a really rare bug report in 10 times bigger bunch of common bug reports.
Another thing is that a product could be improved almost indefinetely and at some point you have to stop or the game won't release at all, because there're always hordes of "gamedev experts" in reddits/forums/etc who always know better thing to implement (sometimes there really are, but i personally laughed at about 80-85% of the Megalist up there, there's sooo much non-critical or subjective stuff). So, I think (and Larian's words about "gathering things up" during the last PFH) the moment has come a couple of months ago. We will see some last improvements in the next patch, but that would be all until the release and only then the "missed" feedback will start working. I hope the patch will bring a lot of fixed and new stuff but faster release is MUCH more preferable as for me.
