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I don't know about the poll, but it was Fujino's idea to make this game slower-paced than his previous titles.My take is that Fujino went for the slow-burn because that's what the polls wanted. However, rather than getting a slow-burn, we got Inoda's and Asuna's relationship take a back seat for other characters, which is where the complaints arose. Now he is going to ignore the polls, and make what he wanted in the first place. In my opinion, this is were all his focus should've been from the start. Now that you have Asuna and Inoda having a sexual relationship in FOG, you can than let Kirito go have his adventure with Klein and Alice, while Asuna and Inoda keep building their relationship.
Doubt we'll get anything, since the update will be until the end of April.
As for the main story taking the back seat, I don't think so. Yes, there wasn't much direct action between Asuna x Inoda, but every interaction of Inoda with Liz or Asuna's mom was still part of the build-up for the main story. The same is true for Asuna and Kirito. Such interactions were adressed in every update; in between, there were also some side characters getting screentime. And it's not really like Sugu or Alice got many scenes, to be honest.
I think the main issue is that part 2 had just overall less content, considering what was going on in part 1, and that's true for all characters. But thats understandible, because he litterealy cut off a bunch of characters from part 1 and intruduced new ones, maybe that wasn't a good idea.