Rob, I don't think it's a "vocal minority" that doesn't want escalation, I think it's the vast majority. Regardless saying things like:
every currently legal supplement are allowed.
Is just a way to say "my way is legitimate, your way isn't" and that's obnoxious, so don't.
For the record, at some point, I decided to shut up about this particular tournament, but I hope we're not establishing a precedent that doubles are automatically "allow all the crazy" events. I have two friends, that really only play 40k anymore for these doubles and triples events. We really had no interest in playing with superheavies, and thus it feels like we really missed out on what would otherwise be a good chance to play. That sucked.
I mean if you have to have "crazy 40k" events, that's fine, but they can be singles events, too. I'd like a doubles or triples event that was "normal 40k" too, please.