Actually, I do remember one example where an instance of communication did somewhat mollify some negative sentiment, and it was when it was communicated to us that Fatshark did go through a few iterations of the “collect 3 blessings to create a high tier” version of the blessing crafting system and because they couldn’t tune it to be fun they changed course to the unlock system.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages (combining blessings used them like consumables and was still RNG but did allow a small amount of explicit progression, whereas the current system only requires you to be lucky once rather than potentially multiple times), but the change had a general sentiment of “eh”, rather than riots in the streets, partly because it was communicated out that, at face value, Fatshark couldn’t make it work. But mainly because the locks were still around took all the attention.
This one: