A good complaint is a good complaint. Most users do not

complain no matter what is transpiring. Percentages don’t
matter.

Nonsense.* If a thousand people use a trail and only one
complains about what is transpiring then, however good the complaint, that
suggests that it's a minority view.

Not so ... BECAUSE most folks will never complain -
period.

So, go and ASK them ... be active. But my fundamental point remains ... you cannot discern the sentiment of the gamut of trail users from the missives of a tiny, unreasonable minority.

The information that I do have about the hiking community which,
by the way, I also belong to is that the vast majority have no issue with
sharing trails in most circumstances.* The surveys that have been conducted
support that view.* If you want to disprove it then provide me with some
data ... tell me what is going on in the hiking community ... but with real
figures not just your 'thousands' which has been rather discredited.*
Otherwise, it's just hearsay from you and, as I'm sure you're aware, hearsay
isn't admissible in evidence .. for good reason.

The only figures I am interested in are real life complaints
from hikers and equestrians ... of which there are plenty.

Well, you seem to be producing a lot of complaints yourself ... but that hardly makes your point :-).