Fair enough. I'd say that was true later on, after Grummz left. Before that there was an internal struggle based on the design preferences of a couple opposing internal forces. For example red 5 decided to add gear decay in 2013, which was not a feature commonly requested by the community. In fact when a couple people requested it the larger community were against it. Though, once announced, it became an important feature for many while it remained disliked by many others.
