trog, chill. the hostility comes from legit coders being offended that you thought you knew how graphics/optimization works nor the business decisions and the reasons for them that led to the switch having its current specs. if i were you id drop it entirely.
to put it this way - playing a lot of games doesnt make you good at designing or making them. not even reading design manuals and studying the subject makes you good at them. only actually having experience doing them matters, and when people who presume they know how to do it tell people who actually have done it how to do it, those experienced people tend to get a little aggravated at being told how to correctly do their job by this inexperienced roostery person. this applies to hardware design and business decisions as well.
to put this in perspective: im sure a ton of people had suggestions or criticisms about new years. but you did the best you could, maybe even cut out the things that people asked for so you had time to work on other features most people appreciated.
the best you can do is question why things are the way they are, not imply that the decisions that led things to the way they are can be explained by one "problem" and solved by one "solution." remember that people in the games industry aren't there because they didnt have anything better to do: the vast majority gave up possible careers in mainstream industry with better pay to do what they love, aka making games. they arent going to make decisions that ruins the experience without a decent reason, whether its financial or artistic
