Personally, I don't give 2 shits about Techies. To me it's less about Techies and more about signs of progress.
While the flow of items they can sell you never slows, actual updates to the core game (balance, heroes) seem to get slower and slower every quarter. That's just how it feels, and perception is reality for most people...especially when the company does as poor a job at communicating as Valve does. It's been...what? About 7 months since the last hero got added to Dota 2 (Terroblade)? Think about that. That mothafucka came out during
New Bloom. We haven't seen a new hero released or any visual updates for any of the many who need it. This is all without even mentioning the many bugs in the gameplay and cosmetics. Again, it's not about any particular hero; it's about the feeling that the game is losing or has lost any semblance of importance to Valve.
At the moment, we're poised to get Techies and probably some bug fixes sooner rather than later. Which is cool. But the outlook makes me worry. At this pace, we won't see another hero until...March or April of 2014? Maybe one before the end of the year again. Or otherwise, 2 - 4 heroes/year
when we used to get 1-4 per month. It's frustrating.
Speaking of, I've given up entirely on the hope that Valve would learn to communicate better. I expected after DireTide we'd see a new-found prioritization of communication with the masses of fans. But nope, bad habits die very, very hard. As many have said, Valve needs a community manager in the worst way.