If you notice, after four years and over 300 reviews AWAM is pulling a modest 3.5 star rating despite having a good story and usually good writing, exceptionally alluring women, an MC to die for, a daughter worth two trips to hell and back in prime position to get some serious nookie, and among the best art available in the genre.
I think it’s fair to say that the ratings and reviews and chat in this forum are pretty well balanced and on the whole make a strong case for crowd sourcing.
Is the chat in this forum balanced? I agree with you, at the moment (!) The conversation is balanced. But there are times when this forum overflows with hatred, malice, inappropriate demands, know-it-all and calls for boycotts. And that for pages and days. And then one wonders why the developer is boycotting the forum for his part. "None of that has anything to do with our behavior here." We only make "justified" demands and have good arguments for it. Even good arguments don't get any better if they are always produced. And those times will come again!
Now it is interesting to see that the latest teaser from L&P has not yet arrived in this forum. Even one of his most relentless reviewers
ViperDonkey seems to have seen the picture and didn't make it immediately available to everyone here. It seems that L&P has the longer lever and has won the power struggle. It is possible that the biggest haters here have managed to get L&P to sit even more firmly in the saddle and, if he notices this, will take even more time. (Personally, I don't think L&P will behave like that.)