This sounds like exactly the kind of pathological hierarchy that will inevitably evolve if you don't bother trying to build a better one. An ad-hoc structure based on tenure, cliques, strength-of-personality, and an overseeing dictator, where meritocracy is ignored and minority or unpopular...
I can't speak for the developer's motivations, but my guess is that iron-sights is intended to help better differentiate the primary shooting mode from the secondary mode. In the first, you are shooting from the hip, whereas in the second you are aiming more carefully, and adjusting the gun to...
I really don't know how you can get from the sentiments I expressed in my post, which was an opinion about the manner in which people were expressing their criticism, to suggesting that I think criticism shouldn't be allowed or that all their complaints are wrong. And I never claimed to be a BM...
I loved every minute of it.
It really amazes me that people's first reaction to a leaked 5 min gameplay video is to shit on and insult the developers who've spent eight years making a piece of entertainment that they plan to give away for free. Even if you disagree with a particular gameplay...