User interfaces
You said, "a guideline from the manufacturer stating how they think an
application should work under the Amiga OS is useful in the situation where you
are attracting new developers to the platform."
I took that to mean, CBM was attracting new developers with the guidelines.
I'm not blaming Commodore for my troubles… and I'm here talking about this
with you, so I'm hardly avoiding discussion. The vast majority of Amiga
developers are not here discussing their interface choices. You think that
they wouldn't have strong opinions *if they were here*?
You seem to be taking a very simplistic approach to determining whether I'm
"listening" to my users. Because I haven't changed to look like an entirely
different product (Pixel Pro), you think I'm not listening. Or because I don't
have the Amiga look-and-feel du jour, as defined by some shareware DirUtil
written by someone with too much time on their hands.