Do you honestly mean to say we would've gotten Share the Circle with Stability slider?
Well, yes? I am talking exactly about how it seems to me voters became less generous wrt non-numeric things last times; what was happening before Stability slider reveal was equivalent to going for big options more than once, what with how we got Redshore and Lower Valley.
Admittedly, I was not a participant in the quest back then, so this perception may well be skewed by only reading the updates in question and not voter disposition.
North-South divide had no numbers attached, and yet it was more important to us and Art or Mysticism numbers for the last....two IRL weeks at least, maybe ever since their creation.
So, no, I understand the point you are trying to make - that the numbers dominating the discussion is the cause of us having access to more information in such a form - but I have to disagree or at least state that they still have way too big part of discussion dedicated to them.
Although I may well be wrong here. In the refugees department, the only thing thrown around is numbers - not a lot of arguments against refugees in narrative sense besides "it's troubled times and different people", which is basically Stability protection. Too much numbers.
In the 'What does the RB do?" there are no numbers shown so the discussion is on tactics. Good and healthy one.
In the Highlanders vote, there are numbers, so instead of discussing how new Province overstrains bureaucracy, at least some people are voting for it
to lower Centralization, which is ignoring narrative in favour of numbers (misleading yet again) to the point of absurdity. Again, way too much numbers > narrative.
City discussion was largely divied on these lines specifically: veekie argued that TS becoming Free City would bring forth narrative cultural long-term troubles and pointing and historical examples, while his opponents were pointing at Centralization cap rising at Econ payout. Average and amusing once you look at it this way.
Lowlands discussion was focused on how to bring them closer; the winning votes are the ones which do not have numeric costs attached (despite Support Suboridate being of much use due to cultural mingling - it has Econ cost, others lack it, guess which ones are winning?), with the exception of not giving away iron due to narrative concerns of them leaking like an old sieve. Could be better, could be worse.
Religion discussion is great in that despite having stats listed, discussion was focused almost exclusively on narrative impact. No complaints at all here.
Overall: I was overestimating how bad it is, but the issue seems to indeed exist, at least from my subjective POV.
