User blog comment:Ducksoup/Why Wikia Evolves/@comment-9380534-20150618165546/@comment-5558012-20150618184953

The majority of those that decided to give input.

A large part of the global nav and breakpoint input was just revert it or make it optional. A discussion in advance probably wouldn't have had much affect (mainly with the breakpoints as the change was to force a correction of bad habits, naturally people weren't going to like it). The global nav is Wikia's space so when they decided to change its purpose applying less of the user demand change it back is also understandable.

I really do think though advance collaboration could help with more user-specific features (a great example is the change with infoboxes). Even with this collaboration, people are still going to complain when it officially releases.