According to you, are you part of Inno's The West Dev Squad?
Nope not apart of inno but I do try to understand my surroundings. ie, the CM and net event staff deal with the international servers and take care of this community, they pass feedback to their boss. Events and forum contest put on by our local team is usually done completely by our local putting their personal time into giving something back to us. Now yes these events are not for everyone and maybe they should focus on forum contest, but I think you have even complained about those in the past, too.
Now for development of the game, it is not the choice of the local team which direction this game goes, just like it is not their choice to open new worlds, that is the higher ups.
I guess in the end I make the choice to not blame those take all the heat for every unfortunate choice the LCM/company makes, while not being the ones who made the decision that upset the playerbase. Example: I wouldn't blame a McDonald's employee for prices raising, as the employee has no part in the decision. Though the employee being on the front lines receives the feedback which they pass on to corporate, mostly to be ignored.
Also speed worlds as far as I know are handled by the CM and event staff, developer and LCM spend no time on it, even as far as if there is a bug it won't be fixed as it is not a priority to the company, quite a few speed servers with bugs that are never fixed even though they effect game play.
Sorry for bothering, your feedback is probably way more helpful than actual suggestions for topic at hand, which was... lol