User blog comment:Ducksoup/Why Wikia Evolves/@comment-9380534-20150618165546/@comment-9380534-20150618185516

Oh, quite right, DEmersonJFM. Having preliminary discussions wouldn't completely eradicate the complaints, but, it would

A. Reduce them.

B. Show users that they had the option to give feedback on the feature before it affected them.

Granted, not every proposal should be debated and tested by the community, but the major ones that affect each and every user, who many not know how to modify the change with their own CSS/JS, would be most beneficial in my humble opinion.