That wasn't me being harsh. If that's how it read, apologies, but the opposite is true: feedback is always good. I subscribe to comments on Suggestions because it gives me a very broad view of the viewpoints of the site users (I'm very aware I'm an unusual edge case user so need to think through how others want the site to act).

the majority of DW users ... are usually people who have already used blogging sites

Yes, true. But that's because most of us transferred here directly from LJ for a vast variety of reasons (one of the recent exoduses was prompted by a badly implemented feature I'd been lobbying for, for example).

But that's current users, and we always need to be careful to not design for current users; it's potential users we need to attract, and that's a vastly different use case. And much more diverse.