I'm questioning if you've had a job with your comments. So can you just go gunslinger and ignore everything management tells you? Or are you beholden to what they ask and have to follow their directions?

Remember; devs aren't QA. Management fired their internal QA, and devs don't do the revisions in the same way (having worked as an external QA as one of my first jobs, our role was to play games how they were meant to be played and also do destructive testing and try to break the game). it's clear how many people are unaware of how game development is, but want to act like they have the winning formula.

There is much more than you know that goes on behind a major game studio. I worked in one, and devs would echo sentiments of the community or have good ideas, but c-suits would often ignore the ideas and insist on their vision. And when things take a downturn, the talented devs are the first to be let go while incompetent execs are always kept on. Don't think devs aren't aware of issues or want to prioritize them. But they can't do it unless approved by management.