No, they don't. They recommend, and based on the numbers of followers, Bungie may listen. Obviously content creators with many followers have an ear to what the community wants, and Bungie listens to the community. It's as simple as that.
Remember too, that the 1% are also the most vocal. And they don't speak in broken grammar, poor spelling, and -blam!- talk like 99% of whiners do in these forums.
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I mean I was more so talking about the top 1% controlling the entire world but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯