I know because i work on marketing team
My condolences.
If you deliver just quantity nobdy will have faith in you anymore and eventually will leave.
Generally, I Agree. Not that it matters.
today marketing is all based on the User and clients, it's over the era of ceo's vision. What matter in a digital worl, is how clients talk about your product.
The issue is way beyond marketing, naturally as a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail so also goes with marketing. So i have to disagree with you assessment if only on the basis of it being of rather conventional wisdom. While oftentimes not imediately lethal, ought not in my eyes be assumed to be the be all and end all on the subject. As such things are never in any matter uniform across many a different metric even to the point of being un-replicateable.
The only thing is the thing in and of it self.
There is only one useful way of measuring effectiveness in economic matters and that is continuing profit. Market research, client opinions, if you like it yourslef ect. any and all of these are suboptimal in comparison to demonstrated preference through the exchange of money. That is in a hypothetical free market, which isn't even close to existing in our modern world given the existance of central banking and zombie finance, regulation, absurd taxation structures and government spending ect.
But i digress what i mean in short is what works actually works. If taleworlds tries differently and succeeds good on them. Haveing a functioning organisational structure is much more important in my eyes than any one issue. Including that of marketing. If they can effectively respond to issues in the future then to hell with discussing their specific views on community feedback ect.
The fact of the matter is i doubt taleworlds will be profitable in the over the long term given their current strategy and or results, but that is just a guess on my part. It could just a case of, old man yells at cloud, who knows? I certainly don't.
Then again it could simply be the perfect storm causing many of the issues with development (on the assumption that things are not going too well). I doubt it as bad management always comes up with excuses for faliures, which even if true only constitute part of the issue a large part still being the organisation itself.
Given turkeys (still not going to call it Türkiye) relative state of financial chaos. With a projected rate of 50% inflation ( for the sake of arguement ignore the absurdity of a basket of goods as a metric for inflation) i can see how such things could effect the productivity of the company. On both a personal and profesional level. Not to mention the government coming to help, as it is sometime said with lockdowns ect. over E.A.
I ramble too much.