You are welcome to make up your mind on that issue.

You took it to mean ' we dont want your opinion or feedback so we lock you out of commenting '

I took it as ' we want to say this, and we know some will twist it to say that so we locked this topic, but you can make another topic to discuss this '

Cant blame the devs, a lot of chat is about how lazy they are, or the game is abandoned and they are just milking us for more cash before they run off.
Not a good thing to have in a chat about you working on the next update... I would be leary if the chat was abandoned game, devs ran off, etc etc.

if you agree the devs have ran off, then I will agree your position is correct, but I do not think they ran off.