I got a reply to my 'angry email', and I will share it here. Honestly I am happy they cared enough to reply. The reply itself was promising as well. They also sent someone to clean up the spam. Onwards and upwards!
Reply:
MotiveWave is currently under original ownership and customer satisfaction is paramount to us.
Please refer to the answers below in regards to your feedback.
How about you send an intern to your own forum to clean up all the spam
Although we do have measures in place in helping control the volume of spam, there has unfortunately been quite a few lately by a couple of parties circumventing these measures. We have cleaned up most of it and will continue to monitor the situation on a daily basis.
Everyone who submits a feature request knows deep in their heart that it will never be implemented
We have implemented over 100 feature requests over the past three years. Each one of our hundreds of feature requests get reviewed and assessed individually by development based on a number of factors. If it does get approved, it then gets prioritized and scheduled for implementation. We obviously cannot implement them all as this would not make sense from a product usability perspective.
We are currently working on version 7 which will have quite a few feature requests implemented.
goes into an update loop for a month until you decide to fix it.
This was reported on March 22 and did not affect all users. It was addressed a few days later on an individual basis for those who contacted support. I did check your email history and I don't see a record of you reporting it to support.
We do apologize for the inconvenience this caused you. For future reference, please reach out to support should you have an issue that you feel is not being resolved.
You did also mention comments on X (twitter) but I am unable to find the specific examples that you are referring to. If you can point me to those specific comments, I can look into it further.
Best,
Joe