The message behind your post seems to be, in essence, 'if you're serious about making the game better, either join Beta or shut up' and 'it's only a game, and there are people dying all over the world from tragedy upon tragedy, so you should be ashamed of yourselves for making such a big deal about a game'.
It's possible that some of us don't have the time to 'jump into beta' - honestly, I've been a beta tester before and from what I've seen of what people seem to think of beta, your actual testing base is woefully small. I have gotten the distinct impression over the past few years that most consider Beta to be no more than a free way to get the jump on others in finding out about changes, updates and especially new quests. Lots of talk about Beta that show it's considered just another playing world - the majority of people in Beta seem to be there to use it as a means to perfect their gameplay and not to try to improve the game itself.
As for me, if I had the time I would join Beta, but I've been having less and less time to play in the regular worlds and there's no way I would have the time to spend in Beta to do what should be done. But in the same light, the new gameplay has been giving me less and less time away from the keyboard - before I could set a job for 1 hour and walk away to do other things; now I set 8 jobs for 15 seconds each and it's done in 2 minutes. Oh yes, I can set a longer-term job for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1:30 or 2 hours - and come away with a fraction of the results I would have seen before. I just do not see the update as a good tradeoff - I'm running out of crafting supplies and the jobs I can queue to try and replenish supplies simply cannot keep pace with 3 measly crafting jobs per day for the dailies. It's things like that which fall far short of being the siren song to lure me back to the game I was hooked on for 4+ years.
Perspective? You tell us to have perspective relative to the real world? I live in New Jersey, sir, 30 minutes from the shore - what is left of it - and most everybody in my town was without power or heat for 12 days of below-40 degree weather after the recent hurricane. I went outside twice a night in 21-degree cold to put gas in a generator, and I have friends in New York who are still not back on their feet. So yes, I do have perspective, and I do know that this is 'just' a game.
But it's a game where, until recently, I was willing to pay for premium features - it was a game that helped me relax after work and on the weekends. So yes, I also see it as a form of entertainment. And right now, at least in my own mind, I can honestly categorize it with NewsRadio after Phil Hartman died and The Office after Steve Carell left. It's still entertainment by definition, but it no longer entertains me.
What do I hope to accomplish by railing against the changes that I know, in my heart of hearts, will not be revoked and probably not even revised? Tell me honestly, how many avenues of communication are open to the player community in order to express our dissatisfaction with the changes we have been trying to deal with for the past 3 weeks? Do you honestly think we should just shut up and accept things we don't like without expressing our concerns? if so you can go back page upon page in these forums and see that that isn't how we roll. We're a very vocal bunch - not always polite and not always well-expressed, but we try to make our feelings known. If we like something we'll say so. if we don't like something - we'll really say so. That hasn't changed since the game began - we're an international community with members all over the globe; members from every walk of life, every age bracket, every religion, every cultural group you care to point out. We're all different in so many ways, but we're all alike in that we grew to love this game.
Consider the concept of artistic ownership - an author writes a book that means what he intended for it to mean. But as soon as it's read, it also means what the reader perceived it to mean, even if it doesn't match the author's intended meaning. Once it leaves the author's hands he has no control over what it means, and its meaning is always changing. This game legally belongs to Inno, but we all consider it to be our game as well - many of us have paid money to play (some more than others, and yet others considerably more) and we've invested a lot of time in the game as well; we've for better of worse become invested in our characters and in the game. So whether or not it makes sense to anybody else, we also consider this our game. And while we could easily (?) just stop playing and walk away for good, most of us would rather fight to keep it enjoyable. We've made friends here as well and would probably lose touch with them if we left the game - there are as many 'valid' reasons for not wanting to leave the game as there are people who play.
But don't mistake our "trolling" - if that's what you want to call it - for wanton, random venom spewing. We like this game, we've been playing this game for a long time, and given enough motivation we would like to continue playing this game for the foreseeable future. But when such huge changes come our way and the greater part of the game becomes so different that we're no longer comfortable with it - well, it would be stupid NOT to say something. We just tend to choose the easiest, most convenient method of expressing ourselves, which in this case is this particular thread (and maybe a few others). Would you rather that we didn't care enough to complain about things?
And if you care to peel away the rough shell of the messages behind all these posts, you'll find that by and large we are pointing out specific things about the changes that we find distressing. the message is there - it merely wants someone who is willing to see it and understand it.
