I would agree with this, but from my personal vantage point not one of the criticisms I've made of the game goes against Larian's vision for the game. Every single one of my issues could be positively addressed by Larian without the game being changed in any fundamental way.
I wasn't speaking about your criticisms or views in particular, just about whether Larian might be responding differentially to different constituents of players giving feedback and favouring those who have praise. Which the more I think about it seems to be a point about Larian's internal discussions and approach that we will never settle satisfactorily here so we'd perhaps better leave it.
What can be more objectively settled, at least when we actually see the game, is what specific feedback Larian have actually made changes as a result of. We may never know whether they made those changes as a result of their critics or their fans (probably they even don't, they just saw a lot of people saying the same thing) but at that point we'll in a better place to assess what kinds of changes they made and where they stuck to their guns despite folk requesting alterations.
But as Blackheifer said, we probably should wait and actually play the release version before we make any final determinations on that!
