Honestly I start to feel a bit uncomfortable about being in the limelight here for some reason, I still don't think I've been a particularly bad apple but you tell me... anyways, as I already explained above there are reasons why I complain about the things I do, and I always tried to be as constructive as I can in my criticism - even offering suggestions of my own instead of just proclaiming "this is garbage" for the sake of it - unlike a fair few others I don't judge Elite in a vacuum (hur hur) but compare and contrast with what other games offer (even if they're not in the same genre, it helps to appreciate what's possible in gaming these days).
I mean, take pretty much any suggestion that
@Rubbernuke made over the past years - I love almost if not all of them, and would be delighted if they were implemented. Because unlike some of the more crazy stuff you can often see in the Suggestions forum, his ideas (and others of course) try to be realistic and considering existing limitations, while offering some real easy wins (sometimes just requiring tweaks to numbers/formulas). And time and time again those get ignored to oblivion by FDev, and instead they go ahead and double down on the worse aspects of the game (the entire on foot engineering loop being a prime example).
The longer you see this taking place, the more frustrated one gets. Eventually since emotions are involved those frustrations get vented by the occasional snarky comment (I'm only human like almost everyone else here). I simply can't call something "brilliant", "fantastic", "best ever" if it's simply not, just to stroke someone's ego. When something was done well, I will call it out accordingly, but if not, then I'll be frank, and I think that's only fair - including towards FDev, because I would think that negative feedback is more valuable to them than positive one, as the latter rarely triggers change or improvements.
/climbs off pedestral
Agree with the rest of your post fwiw and those absolutely don't help lightening the mood alright.
