Is anyone from GGG actually reading the "feedback"?

My guess is they have grunts reading and summarizing the overall picture to the execs.

Short answer... no.

Jonathan made clear he doesn't read forum feedback.

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LiMA6#0387 wrote:

whether they do or they don't doesn't matter, but the silence and tendency to do things opposite of what people want sure makes it feel like they have waste everyones time, especially those who write 5 paged essays with 0 replies.

"People don't wanna play the campaign again." "Oh is it? Then we need to make it more fun"

I swear bro, in some cases it does get really irritating.
"What ? People are complaining that they are running too slow and that they'd like the pace to the game to be a little faster ? Ok, boost that temp chain mod on maps from 10% to 22%" This sort of stuff is killing me.
To be honest in 0.2 it feels like ggg has taken more steps that are anti-player/anti-fun than they did anything else, some choices are just baffling to me.

I do believe some people at ggg are reading these forums to some extent, a couple of moderators here and there surely, but when it comes down to it there's probably only a very small amount of bullet points that actually makes it to decision maker's ear.
For the most part these forums are probably mostly a place for us to discuss and bicker amongst ourselves. Surely if something is repeated enough times eventually it'll make it's way onto the table though. Where it could still be ignored of course.

moderators read each and every post (waste of resources imo.. just how much damage can an angry mob do with text?) -- yes i believe

judging how things unfold, we can't be certain that they do read.

after all, they still need to 'communicate' with the public via their paid sponsored streamers.... who aren't at all good representatives of the community. a good representative would be ruetoo and guess how they treat the guy. why is any of it necessary? just read the forum.