How would your trust be impacted if there was better communication ahead of a breaking change you could almost agree with? i.e. the experience has been well bey

How would your trust be impacted if there was better communication ahead of a breaking change you could almost agree with? i.e. the experience has been well beyond that which you currently expect and have been provided good reasons proactively. The gap I see a lot starts with a bad versioning strategy and continues through bad API analytics to bad communications for developers. The API provider should be able to understand all of the individual clients to the point where they can decide to progressively migrate them one-by-one, if necessary. There shouldn't be a need to use metadata like IP addresses or user-agents to try and identify the clients. Unless someone has walked through these scenarios ahead of time, it's difficult manage when issues arise.