And this is what concerns me because Swen seems to take the position that he speaks for everyone;
I would never say that Swen is trying to talk for everyone ...
He is simply talking in behalf of his company that is creating this game ... and yes, they are creating it exactly as they see fit ... i know its a hard pill to swallow, but that is something that every company ever did, and its in no way no shady business, even some people seems to think that. :-/
I can see some of those people asking why they opened Early Acess then, when they dont want to create this game the way we want it, but want to stay in course they want ...
And i believe answer is simple here:
Seriously tho.
The reason is simple ... more people, more opinions, more ideas ... they opened Early Acess to know our opinions ... nothing more, nothing less ...
Now they gather our opinions and they concider them ... some are throwed away imediatly (like Real time with pause), bcs those are things they specificly told us they will never ever do ... some are concidered (or at least i hope) ... some are allready accepted and they are curently working on proper implementation ... and some are allready implemented (weighted dice, remove AoE effects on cantrips, etc.) ...
In short: We are here to provide our opinion ... and that is what we do ... they are here to provide us their game ... and that is what they do.
In perfect world our wishes and their visions would be the same ... but we are not living in perfect world, also we are not even able agree with each other about how should this game lookalike.
So we just have to remember that no matter what we want, or how many of us want that, this is still first and foremost their game, and therefore their vision will set the course.