> Would you miss the Council if it was gone?

Yes, a lot.

And I will also miss a community council in the MeeGo project if none is formed, based on the different setup of that project and community.

It has been already said, but the basic point you need to understand is that the Maemo Community Council addresses primarily community topics, and we at Nokia collaborate with this team mainly on community topics.

N900 support, Flash, Ovi Maps, etc are consumer topics. Even if maemo.org wouldn't exist at all Nokia would have a fair idea about the opinion customers (users and developers, current and potential), media (social and traditional) and shareholders (for that matter) would have about them. These consumer topics usually are tied to significant project investments and strategic decisions that go way above the Maemo Community, its Council and the Nokia guys interacting here with you.

The Council is a tool with a purpose. Use it for the purpose it has been designed and you will probably get good results. Try also to use it for other purposes if you feel so: the tool is young and still quite unexplored. But don't ask the Council to fix what you don't like from Nokia. Dismiss it for that reason is like dismissing a hammer because it can't cut nails properly.