So I'm gonna vent for a minute.
The amount of complaining I have seen in the past year towards Faraday is some bullshit. Some sexist bullshit, in fact.
I have heard so many layers of people demanding she develop certain things for Ares in some goddamn entitled ways.
Guess what: you aren't paying her.
She develops Ares on her own time, at her own pace, for free.
She releases it for free.
She doesn't have to include anything she doesn't want to. She doesn't have to justify herself. And yeah, she is blunt and brusque sometimes, but also: she doesn't have to fucking say anything other than 'I don't want to' when telling you why.
Jesus Christ I have had multiple people privately PM me to whine that they were told 'I don't want to' by Faraday as a reason to not add something and they didn't like it.
So?
Should she write up an emotional, empathetic, multi-paragraph reasoning? If it was Tehom or Ashen telling you 'Nah, I don't want to add that' would you feel the same? Or would go go 'cool, brah, thanks for listening.'
I promise you, Fara and I have butted heads more than a few times (we fought, big time, over the addition of page reporting back when BSU was open and Ares was still a baby... and people have probably seen a couple of our arguments in the Ares Discord), but I have never sat there thinking 'How dare she say it THAT way.
She's never been insulting. She's never been rude. She's just been blunt.
She doesn't owe anyone an explanation for why she's doing things, goddamnit. Until you are paying her for her work, she can design and release Ares however she damn well pleases.