You seem to be reading a lot into my post that I didn't say, and missing some of what I did say.

I'm aware that it's primarily a fundraising issue, but in the EA preamble is explicitly says that it is also to get input from those payments ng and playing early access.

I also very explicitly said that no, they should of course not simply so what the community asks. I invite you to read what I wrote again.

As to who they should listen to, that's part of what I'm asking. Who should they listen to, and who are they listening to? And in concert with those questions, where are they getting bad ideas like "patch the AI to make it worse?"