if nothing else it's very interesting seeing such engagement with the community. Unlike other game developers.
There are other game developers out there that have good engagement with their communities. Its not something unique to CIG.
One of the problems with CIG is they say too much. They have committed themselves to putting out non-stop content, this means there is so much of it, a lot of it is just blah blah blah filler or technobabble. It also convinces some people who have no clue about software development that they know something about software development, or even worse, people who know about software development "learning" stuff from CIG which is going to get them fired one day for trying to do things the same way.
And if there is one person who shouldn't be engaging with the community it is CR, because every time he does he either adds another 2 years to the scope of the project talking about some other unnecessary feature he wants to see or he says something dumb like the time he absolved himself of wrongdoing.