They 100% do. And if the UI was designed solely with community suggestions and feedback in mind, it would become death by design by committee just like Blender. IF there is to be a UI overhaul, a dedicated team is needed; that much I agree on but the primary design language needs to be influenced by the maintainers, developers and specialists and not the larger community. Don’t basically do what Blender devs did. Dont build stuff you can’t maintain in the long or even short term.
I totally understand. I was going to post the full thing in that single reply but I got carried away by some different task (I’m at my native place for the Ganesh festival in India which is still not over and there’s always someone who needs help or something that needs to be dealt with…) and instead of saving as draft, I replied… My bad on that one.