In the past I would say my experience mirrors yours. Recently however, that’s definitely not the case. I don’t game as heavily as I used to but the few EA titles that catch my eye on the Steam (Kynseed, Foundation, Encased) or Epic (Surviving the Aftermath, Satisfactory) stores have frequent smaller patches or blogs about things happening. I’ve even seen a fair number of interviews with Watcher for Shadowlands to slowly build buzz for that release, not to mention the alpha iterations with testers that provide a cycle of feedback, design, and implementation.
I would like to point out that I did say a nonzero amount of transparency. Would a rough roadmap be nice? Absolutely. But really at this point I’d like any information possible about the state of past ideas that were presented as planned (titans, races, wearables mainly for me) and a look at what’s ahead. If that information isn’t possible, then I’ll agree with what you said…
…and instead ask that instead of nonzero transparency they become completely opaque. Why tease shields and lances with no plans for implementation? Why tease anything until it’s determined to be something that will soon make it to test and eventually production?
I get that things change, ideas shift, some concepts grow stale while others need to be tossed aside to make way for new. But I don’t think communicating about that with the community in any way locks them into something. On the contrary I’d think that it would show how fluid things really are while also keeping expectations low.
I’m not demanding anything although I will cede that I probably do take the ability to directly tag devs on these forums for granted (though with no guarantee they read every post, so not sure how entitled that truly makes me here vs. with any other game company but that’s another conversation perhaps…). I’m merely making a request since it seems like more and more people are looking for an update. And the only reason I’m making such a request is because I believe so much in the potential of this game.
These are my personal feelings only but I am not a fan of the concept of Exos, I knew that as soon as the Chrysominter came out that it would be exploited at some point, and I dislike how RNG based forging is. So to me the only big thing that’s come out recently is farming. What I’m really hoping for is, well, personal hope. Hope that they’ll add in some solid PvE game-changing or game-adding mechanics or features here in the near future. Or if not hope, then closure. If titans won’t be implemented, let us know so I can at least get some closure on that concept and move on from Boundless 
. (full disclosure that I know other people play this game for other reasons and enjoy the things that I might not enjoy. That’s wonderful! Just typing out my personal thoughts)
Also one final note that is completely off topic…
Please tell my past and current employers this! Maybe the reason I’m such an advocate for nonzero transparency is because I’m so fully immersed in agile now that anything resembling a waterfall framework is difficult to work with 