It was probably deleted because it caused more problems, than solutions.

Leslian is basically correct. But to elaborate a bit further...

All beneficial feedback & criticism from it had been recorded and fed back to the Irongate team, and at this point, it was really just page after page of the same arguments and miss-information getting repeated in circles. Regardless of the individual good intent of most of the people in the thread, toward the end it was no longer a helpful thread for development discussion or feedback and was just a lot of breaking Steam's Discussion Rules and Guidelines and our Forum Rules.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

There's a saying in my house "I can't hear what you're saying over how you're being". In other words, it's really hard to listen to what is valid in someone's criticism if how rude and mean they're being saying it is all you can hear.

Constructive criticism, feedback & suggestions shared in a civil way that isn't just full of inaccurate assumptions, angry opinions, misinformation, and unkind speculation is absolutely welcome, of course!