If you trust a team enough to have them write software for you, then you should also trust them enough to make decisions about that software. If you don't trust them, why are they working at your organization?
A group of people who distrust each other is usually a highly inefficient group – perhaps not even really a "group" at all, but merely a collection of individuals all trying to defend themselves from each other. That's no way to run an organization or to have anybody in it lead a happy life.
If a user wants to influence a developer's decision, the best thing they can do is offer data. Developers need information in order to make good decisions for their users, and that information often comes from the users themselves.
If you as a user think that a piece of software is going the wrong direction, provide information about the problem that you would like solved, and explain why the current software doesn't solve it. Get information about how many other people have...