At this stage since everyone that returns to the game day after day has been around long enough to know what the meta is and how it has changed over time, I just wish that the dev team had a lot more transparency during their development process. It can't hurt to make a quick thread saying "Hey guys, for the next patch we're thinking of doing X, Y, and Z... what are your thoughts on that? Also, how would you all propose we go about nerfing/buffing items A, B, and C since I think we can all agree they are pretty OP at the moment?" If this was done long before any time was spent working on it then there would be no hurt feelings/etc. when people disagree with what is being done and all that time seems wasted. I've tried bringing up that we need some sort of PR guy on the team, but that just never happened.
This thread can sort of serve that purpose for the incoming patch... no need to rush it so that the next patch comes out ASAP. I think everyone would rather we get a solid patch on release day rather than a so-so one with many debatable changes that will take a month+ to revert.