Agree with you CaptHaplo,,a point I also have tried to get through.
I mean that all ideas thrown toward the game is just fine, but we must also remember that to some extent that we are talking about artistic work here and the same when I write music, you can't get it all to work for everybody.
They have for sure have a basic "map" for the game (SH5) that they try to get through, at the same time as they are listening and looking at Forums like this with all the "brainstorming" going on in here to also implement as much as they can within that map they have.
My biggest point of critisism is that if everything was followed from many viewpoints in advance about the game , we would just have a "new" SH3 with "new clothes" (graphics),,and that IMHO would be kinda boring.
I want to be surprised in a good way.
We'll see if I'm right or wrong, the game must be allowed to be released first.