Not sure, really. In the beginning, just months after C= turned turtle, the bigwigs would stress on every occasion that the major strength of the Amiga was its community. I even vaguely recall that a user platform was created so that the ew company would have a single body to deal with. But that effort soon tore itself apart because everyone had ideas of their own. And the situation became explosive when MorphOS and the Pegasos appeared on-scene. Most people with good ideas left eons ago, and all that is left is a bunch of die-hards who cling to the platform for a number of reasons, none of which will make someone a lot of money.
To be honest, if I were in the industry, I would try to make sure I didn't upset anyone: politely accept the ideas, and respond that they are 'under consideration'. You really cannot do more than that. After all, it is you who is spending all the money to create the program, not the person who sent the idea. And to be very honest, I doubt there will be many good ideas left in the community. I have seen precious few, at least on these boards. Most good ideas are good programming habits nowadays. And other good ideas are likely to have been implemented already. Software-wise the new Amigas are not a testing ground for the cutting edge in technology (I wouldn't even know what the cutting edge in software development *is*) so you can quite easily rely on what has been done already. It's cheaper too.
In other words, I believe you hit the nail right on the head when you wrote: I believe we are just a bunch of crabby 'oldsters' whining and complaining about the good old days, and secretly plotting each other's downfall, and the downfall of our various and sundry local governments. And we all know it :crazy:.
