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That's assuming the person paying and the person receiving the input are the same people. Which in larger companies they most certainly are not.
Some manager or top-level "franchise designer" had the brilliant idea of asking streamers (of all utterly unsuited people!) for advise. Someone in the actual dev team then got all the input, and promptly decided that just asking a magic 8 ball would be far more useful and binned it. Sadly they did end up asking said ball, but eh, at least they ignored the streamer advise.
It not being the same 8 ball that Bushnell and those Atari guys consulted back in the day may be the greatest failure.
But in all honesty, I think that's a great analogy. There's no harm in bringing in competent consultation, but you have to choose wisely. This is more akin to a movie screening. It just so happened to be a test audience that has traditional been compensated for their opinions..