... the Element people always complain about the moonroof location. ... The mods have always said that Honda listens to the EOC, So there you go: the EOC killed the moonroof in the Element.
If Honda listened to anyone, they would be advertising the Element. They aren't. Honda stopped listening when the American marketing plan for a vehicle designed in America to reach a particular American target demographic fizzled, while their direct competitors succeeded.
The moon roof was
only there because the concept car had a sliding rear roof section that appealed to the target market. That target market never materialized, so no further need for the rear moon roof.
Product changes are made to improve market share and/or contain costs. Coke doesn't ask Coke drinkers what changes they want from Coke; Coke looks at Pepsi drinkers and tries to figure out why they prefer Pepsi. GM doesn't make product changes to improve their vehicles without advertising that they've done so. If Honda had listened to the rear moon roof complaints, there were several ways that moon roofs could have been implemented farther forward.
The only reason to not advertise a product in a competitive market is that you don't care if it fails. If Honda listens to the EOC it's only because we represent enough satisfied potential repeat customers to assure them that their fixed costs for JIT assembly of the Element will be covered for another year.