If it's paid software - that means every person, who bought the license (and ESPECIALLY who is on the annual subscription) - are investors into further software development.
And also this is the reason why exist GPL supporters worldwide - who think software must be open and accessible for everyone as books in library. Apple is keeping this classical model - you cannot buy from them computer without operative system for lower price (and install Linux for example).
Every phone (I'm talking about old phones with buttons) every calculator has a software inside. Originally software was something, that you cannot buy, it was always shipped together with hardware. In general every ArchiCAD user is not the same buyer from supermarket, who is getting ready product from fixed amount of money. So, what I want to say: Transparent Development Roadmap is absolutely democratic movement. Or I didn't press submit button, or someone did like that I'm writing what I do really think without trying to be politically correct. Yesterday I wrote my comment here - but now cannot find it. I think GS has perhaps been using the element of surprise as a wow factor to keep people excited about new releases, but this itself is not good enough selling point anymore seeing as a 'surprise' feature could go both ways. If this level of privacy is still not enough, I'm sure there could be a middle ground.
If this is still of concern to Graphisoft, the roadmap could simply be made private to forum users only. I think that the previous argument of "competition stealing ideas" is pretty invalid now that AC's arguably biggest competitor is publicly displaying their upcoming features. The current forum wishes section seems to be working fine, except there is no way for a user to check if the wished function is being worked on or not. Even better if users are able to vote (much like in this forum, but in a more structured way - no need for the user to create their own poll with varying poll options). In my opinion Archicad needs to create a development roadmap that is public and easily understood. Various software use different websites for their needs, main ones being Trello and Productboard.
Every major Architecture or Visualization related software has a roadmap these days, and some let people vote on what's most important.
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