Well beta means feature complete and considered ready to ship excepting as yet unspotted last minute bugs from testers ... so it's way too late to have input to the new direction, the new direction is at beta stage set in stone unless the update is scrapped.
> Well beta means feature complete and considered ready to ship excepting as yet unspotted last minute bugs from testers
No, that's a release candidate. A beta is considered feature complete, but potentially not, and almost definitely somewhat buggy and/or non-performant. It's also often not undergone any major form of usability testing, and will often need to be modified to incorporate the results of that.
