The vast majority of the legion of people complaining about massive game breaking bugs usually complain about the surface of it all.
Collidable trees is not a cosmetic issue, but i can't help but laugh when things like FSAA and sound quality (not the lack of sound in MP, that is a valid issue, just the sound quality) are labelled game breaking bugs. They are immersion enhancing features that need to be corrected, but they are far from game breaking as they don't prevent me from flying and getting the necessary sensory feedback to do what needs to be done in a flight sim. Let's call a spade a spade for once, shall we?
Wanna talk game breaking? Let's talk about inconsistent control logic in some aircraft, the fact that you can't manually release bombs from the bombardier's seat unless you zoom out of the bombsight and click on the switch in the virtual cockpit, or how you can't use the level bombing autopilot in the Ju88 because it's tied to the gyrocompass which is bugged and doesn't work.
Of course, things like that which do classify as breaking certain features/aircraft because they can't be used the way they were meant to be, usually fly with a loud wooshing sound over the heads of the majority of people who focus all their irritation on a jaggy looking radio mast, because they are so busy picking faults with what is readily visible that they haven't even scratched the surface of what's included and needs to be fixed a bit more urgently than their pet peeve so that, you know, these planes can do what they're supposed to do
And let's not even mention that the sim went from a completely unplayable 15 FPS slideshow to a state where it's perfectly playable by a majority of people within two months. Doesn't look like they hit a wall to me, it's more like the community itself working against its own benefit by disregarding whatever progress has been made in their quest to find more things to complain about
There are loads of valid issues but they are not all of the same importance to everybody, because people have different priorities. As such, i don't think that the people who complain the loudest are speaking on behalf of the community (they are certainly not speaking on my behalf, that's for sure) when they usually fail to even touch upon the issues that do affect gameplay. Oh wait, the initial host of gameplay affecting bugs were fixed to a considerable degree with the first few patches and now the sim is now playable for a wide range of people.
Long story short, have your opinion and let others have theirs. The only wall i see is the one of a dwindling supply of things to complain about as issues get fixed so some people keep trying to bash it in with their own heads and find something else to pick fault with instead of actually flying the sim, but i don't go about hunting down forum members that don't enjoy the sim to try and change their mind by constant repetition of my "superior facts and knowledge".
I would really appreciate it if they stop trying to convince me and others who are having a good time that we're actually not, as if they know anything about what constitutes fun to us, or monopolizing the developer team's attention and trying to steer their efforts towards a selection of features that usually have a minimal impact on actually flying the sim.
Either that, or i'll keep replying with vaguely ironic posts to wind them up
I'm not discounting the validity of the issues they bring up, i just think there's loads of things that need to be fixed and development time should be divided appropriately. Lack of FSAA, external sounds or the tone of green in the fields are all valid issues of varying importance to each one of us, but neither one is the be all, end all, single game breaking feature for the majority of the community.
Sorry, but i care more about being able to connect to a server, select a bomber and place bombs on a target than how the adjacent field's color looks or if the bomb's tail fins are anti-aliased. I suspect there's many who share the same feeling because i see a lot who actually divide their time evenly between flying and posting here and it's apparent by the fact that they have something to show for it (whether it's making skins, FMB tutorials, missions and campaigns or compiling FAQs, bug reports and technical guides to help others), which is in stark contrast to those who only demand things, can't take 2 minutes to read the relevant section of the manual or experiment on their own and don't contribute anything.
Like i've said before, it looks like a lot are afraid they might actually learn something (which is pretty weird when you consider this is a hobby) and no matter if they deserve the developer's attention due to being customers, they don't seem to deserve all the help they get from the rest of the community and the time that certain people put in to make the sim enjoyable for all of us.
I'm not naming anyone here, each one is free to decide which demographic they want to place themselves in and if anyone is annoyed well then, sue me. It's an opinion and i'm sticking to it until i see them contributing something other than a one-liner post starting with an irate comment, carrying an aggressive undertone of "when?gimme gimme now!" and ends in a series of question/exclamation marks. If i ever won the lottery i'd be tempted to offer to buy their copies and save them from all this self-inflicted anguish but i don't think many would take me up on it, some are obviously enjoying the lamentation way too much