I will be very blunt on this one so no offense to anyone.
It can be seen already how some users are causing up a storm over matters around this patch. It was clear it was needed, it has solved many issues that the old version of the game had no place for and given it a brighter future, but if we'd been open with it I can close to 100% grantee you guys that this patch would never have happened due to the problems that users would've caused and the means they would've taken to not let this happen.
That aside, and hopefully explaining enough.
At every step that is taken, it will be so many more if we were to pull in users, and most of which will come boiling down to "what is functional and correct way to deal with this from a game/staff standpoint" vs "Many users want it another way for personal game reasons".
Since you're talking about maps and I will point it out once here, there has been plans to add maps like south pole or climbing maps like AI, but since we had enough work and there was things that needed to work out before there was no reasonable time frame to get it all in the first patch. It comes down to design decision and not putting an icy field next to a warm spawn map which would ruin the whole idea of a seamless world, and it was about being able to implement floating magical rocks into the world in a way that would make just a tad of sense. Slapping plain and ugly maps that do not fit with the rest, that we later would need to move to another location and get users confused yet again is a quite poor decision in general if you're going to plan future updates and taking care of the game and see what happens.
A poll only reflects one question, and not the 5 different paths that might come after it, some of which might be more important than the actual poll itself. Making polls that then might lean 80% one way to later ignore it I'm not certain who would want to do that to anger users even further. Polls can only do so much and in the end it's mostly the easier questions and matters
Do I feel like some polls about the game is a bad idea? Not really. But I just see it for what it is and after working on this thing on and off, dealing with the users, dealing with their reasoning and opinions afterwards, and seeing how the old game creator handled something like wings that got added into the game, things like these don't work on a wider scale.
