Quote Originally Posted by Yora View Post
What alternatives do they have? If they don't ask people what they think works and what doesn't than people will complain as well. Probably even exactly the same people who complain now.
The first question is, are they asking the right people. The second question is, will the majority answers be successful in drawing in new people and maintaining them? Because New Coke was also based on listening to people's thoughts.

An issue is that many fans of <insert edition here> will answer that they want 5E to resemble their edition as much as possible... but if it does, they won't buy it because they already have their edition.

Another issue is that certain fans want the exact opposite of certain other fans, so you really can't compromise on a middle ground there. I'm not even convinced modular design will help to reunite mutually exclusive design principles.