Priorities - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)

Interesting that the forum on 'sharing your successes in plan making' changes little from month to month -

 but that 'static caravan in back garden' generates 50 responses in a week.

Does this indicate where our priorities are - or is the big picture so depressing (for anyone who went into planning with any notion of public interest)  that we can only focus on minutiae?