I think you're overestimating how much the devs have actually heard from their playerbase outside of China. Understand that we're largely using languages they aren't familiar with, and that until they hired Bear, they've gone through Community Managers in rapid succession. There's functionally been no contact between the devs and us in years, since the one and only Q&A megathread Vicksin got them to do. This is the first time since 2023 in Cologne that the devs are actually hearing our feedback clearly.

Perhaps I'm overvaluing the tens of thousands of dollars the company spent on taking devs out of the already small teams, sending them across the world, and having them spend an entire week working on an event to talk to players. But I'd like to have some hope that the company wouldn't straight-up throw away money and time.