Yes, actually, it does help.
Just about the only things Bethesda has done in the past half-decade or so since Oblivion has been to either just try to make a copy of a mod that was really popular, or try to fix the flaws that people complained about most in the last game. You can seriously look at this game, and see it as "Oblivion, but with a few extra patches", aside from the obvious plot and setting differences. Heck, even most of the plots are just recycled.
See: People complained about overpowered destruction and underpowered conjuration (even though conjuration was actually very powerful, whatever), and now destruction is horribly nerfed, and conjuration is all-powerful.
So how did whining help if its just the previous game (which most of the whines were aimed at how it wasnt Morrowind) with some patches, recycled quests, and messed up magic skills? Your post is a contracdiction of itself.
There are bug lists to hopfully help with future patches, constructive critiism which one hopes the devs use in their future design choices ... but the endless threads of people just whining ... its a game, and life is too short - get over it and move on
