Good reasons not to change your story in order to accommodate a piece of feedback:
- It doesn’t fit with your overall goals for the story.
- It’s based on misunderstandings. (Fix the misunderstood section instead.)
- It alters your writing style into someone else’s.
- It wouldn’t be better or worse then your original.
- It contradicts the feedback most other readers have given you.
Bad reasons to ignore feedback:
- You believe you can’t learn anything from others.
- You believe the feedback is just plain “incorrect.”
In Conclusion: There are many good reasons not to change your story, but in order to grow as a writer, you should try to understand the outcome those changes would have had and you should know why that outcome isn’t favorable for you and your particular story.