On the other hand, DR, all this access to information, both good and bad, is probably better for the line than might appear. For starters, very few things sneak up on us. (The Spirit of Hordak fiasco notwithstanding.) We're kept informed of every stupid decision and mistake along the way. I'd rather have that then suddenly open a box in Mid-January to Early February 2014, and find that in the intervening 14 months, the Castle Grayskull I ordered had shrunk drastically without my knowledge.
All this nitpicking and the availability of information and legal palaver scared Mattel into offering Spirit of Hordak on the last Early Access, even if it was only for a mere one minute. We (the MOTU collecting community as a whole; I wasn't even aware of the issue at the time) were able to get Snake Man-At-Arms upgraded to a "tech-suit" version because we were given enough advance warning to complain. We have got some things changed, we have been able to influence the direction of the line a bit. Not as much as most of us would have liked, I'm sure, but I believe this constant connectivity has had its benefits.
In my opinion, what's damaging the line isn't knowing about all the stupid decisions and reading the rage over them, it's that stupid decisions are being made in the first place.