I agree with you on this one to be honest. We barely get to know what happens behind the scenes, what the developers are working on and what actually gets done on a weekly basis. I feel like letting the community know what's going on will help out a lot, currently what we see is things like Freebuild, it's been in maintenance for longer than a year now? I don't even know anymore, but a lot of players ask for this game and we don't get to know anything about it, so we instantly get the feeling like they're not working on it or something. If the developers or some other people could let us know what's going on we will see what other things they're busy with etc.
I'm not even sure why the server should be scared to publish things about new gamemodes before they release it, I don't think many other servers would want to ruin their reputation by copying something and even if they are planning on copying things they'll copy it when it gets released. If we get to know more things about the new gamemodes beforehand we can also make suggestions and changes before it gets added, and you just get good feedback from people what they think of everything. Maybe it's even idea for the staff members to pick the best suggestions every week and they give an answer to what they think of the suggestion and they add a strawpoll what the players think of the suggestion. I just feel like the server should communicate way more with the community before adding things and just in general, we don't see what staff members see behind the scenes so if we complain don't blame us as that's how we see things happen.