You can have your conspiracy theories. Nothing anyone can say outside of a developer can stop that.
I'm sure they understand where the genre is going but as long as they understand what they need to do, that's all that matters. The game I buy every year is what matters to me, not someone in a pink name telling me they "hear me." I don't need the reassurance. I don't need a mission statement. I don't need a weekly report.
But that's just me.