The only thing you can read out of this is that customize/fictional player are very loud.
The survey and e.g. OOTP user stats show a much different picture with much, much higher numbers.
The thing is: the mass does not post here or on any other forum. As Markus wrote, they download the game, take their favorite team and just play.
The survey makes it very clear what people want, the user stats from OOTP make it very clear and with the limited resources we have, we will concentrate on that area. But again, we still will add to fictional/historical/customization, just not as fast as some people would like I guess.
Btw, most changes to the modern day to day game apply fully to fictional/historical as well.
Again, I just want to avoid frustration by some people, so I post honest about what we do and what we donīt do.