There are fewer ryona lovers here than you think, lol. I highly doubt TN listens to them, as opposed to those who have a balanced mindset both in the casual and competitive aspects of the game, like, say @Kronin.
I'm not sure about how much TN listen to me (but at least I think to have got the sympathy of Yasushi Tani that work behind the relationship with the fans on the social networks accounts of the team), by the way to me TN seems really a team passionate of their work that try to listen the overall community, so both the casual and hardocre aspects behind the game.
It's a shame that often everything is misunderstood with the DLC matters of the game: who care for releasing overall sexy outfits and promoting the game overall through the fanservice factor is TK, not the development team (that on the opposite when get the initiative usually produce outcomes that are appreciate from the general community, I don't think that it's a case).
So in conclusion I agree that the team try really to balance both the sides of its game, well knowing that the Eastern and Western community seems overall to appreciate different aspects. The problem is that TK think overall to the local market and that people playing competetively DoA are the minority, so inevitably often the focus is (or is just more evident) on the "casual" aspects of the game.