How many pretty minor things does it take before a pattern is established? And of course, they're all minor - until they break your workflow, and the developer

How many pretty minor things does it take before a pattern is established? And of course, they're all minor - until they break your workflow, and the developers politely tell you where to insert your bug report when you rightly raise a complaint about it. I'd rather use a UI that has little-to-no danger of a feature I use daily being ripped out from under me because some engineer who doesn't know: * What user is using their product * What user they are designing their product for * How their product is used in real life ..decides to make unilateral decisions with no possibility for reconsideration.