Quote - ...The reason being is that the majority of Gallery users are happy. It may not seem like it from all the resizing threads, but in actuality the number of members complaining represents a relatively small percentage of the number of members using the Galleries.

That's not really a good measurement since a minority of gallery users post to the forums.  You could have made any change and seen no more than 1% of the users complain in the forums.  Does that necessarily imply that the other 99% like the change?  Admittedly, the happy ones are far less likely to post, but you're making the unfounded leap from "silence = complacency" to "silence = approval". 

It's not a major problem for me, but in the interest of polling-theory, I would wager that if you made user viewing default to "artists' preference", you would see far less complaint in the forums than you have over the resizing to begin with.

But again, I'll be quite happy enough with the solution as presented.