I think you need to actual play A LOT as a player. And played a lot similar games to understand, what we want to say in general. Most of the wishes and feedback isn't even meant bad but for a power user which is using all the systems a lot more and similar ones in other games it becomes a totally normal thing to do.
So it needs a very deep and experienced understanding how and why things should be - as we want them to be.
But yeah, it is the third game. What went wrong or why they have to change already good function tools and systems. I know we will never know. Could be the engine, could be a new interaction of tools, could be so much
But i do think they know what they are doing.