Part of it I think is the size of the dev team/company too. I am a mod on a Failbook Dead by Daylight group and there we have a live stream from the dev team for that game every month, but then they are a bigger company with more resources to throw at updates, plus they CHARGE for their updates (every 2 to 3 months).
Lack of info from the team from this game is annoying at times and one reason you see less of me around here then I used to post due to the sheer amount of posts complaining about some thing that has been told to the folks here ad nauseam.
Not I am not blaming Clare or Sylen here or the other site mods and I paid for the game 2 times (my disc cracked somehow so got a digital version).
Yes paint would be cool, fixing the way mining works now would be cool but I understand why they did it, a faster more stable minibike ride would be brilliant, but there arelimits to what these consoles can do, its not like we can rip out parts of the hardware and replce it like PC, but then that gets into the realms of cost I could not afford anyway, hence me being a console gamer.