What is factual is there is an abundance of negative feedback and reception from the pre-season patch, and the season perks itself. I’ve correlated this with search trends, and some player stats – none of these things on their own can be considered much, but collectively the sensible observation is that more people did not like it and expressed their desire or intent to quit. Even Metacritic review score got hit hard down to 2.5 or something.
I don’t believe its I that is so beholden to being factually correct here – it seems you are by trying to dismiss everything said because of 1 or 2 metrics. In this way, it is you who is placing much more weight on it than I am – I’m highlighting an evaluated trend, and I have stated it as such.
Ill repost my point above that is more on topic;
“” The recent patch notes (Edit - added link and comment)HOTFIX 3 - July 21 - 1.1.0 is a slight improvement on this – they were pre-released this time with opportunity for feedback. Thats what we need more of, and perhaps a doorway to invite suggestions for change ect. (*) Not sure if this change will address the ‘one-shot’ problems, but it is more inline with what people have been asking for.
I think the solution is to try something like a live campfire chat with community for collaborative brain storming – with proposal points by the community to cover as well as the devs intent.“”
Try to keep things in context – your view on the source links and data has no bearing at all on the above point, which is the main point.