If they were responding to opinionated players, it probably wasn't the ones around here. Because if they were responding to us, I think they would've explained how Feeding Dependency was intended to work. And some other stuff like that.
Just to be sure, I want to say I'm speaking only for myself here.
I don't post here much - too busy with a full-time job and working on two other projects for EHP right now - but I like to read what's going on, see how people are using the games. I know other Evil Hatters are lurking, even more sporadically than me in posting. So we see the feedback, read the suggestions here and on other forums...just not everything will make it into a game for a variety of reasons. Jim's work is so flaming popular (Harry? Flaming? Get it?) that we could probably have two 2K tomes and just scratch the surface of what people want to see!
If you guy feel really passionate about helping out, keep an eye on evilhat.com's news to see when the next round of playtesting comes up.