I know it literally crushed my enthusiasm for the future of this game when I realized that it meant another permanent disadvantage for those of us who missed the initial land rush.
Why should those who chose to focus things in a different particular order have it way harder than those that rushed in first? We already gave up the most profitable early days when the first handfuls to max various trade skills were able to really cash in, now you want to make it way harder to catch up?
And that’s not even considering how many people were able to max all their trade skills for basically free due to the huge influx of free gold that caused even honest people to be able to sell things for unnaturally high prices for awhile and reinvest that into trade skills.
We understand that the system on PTR makes more sense on paper, and it might have been better if it had started out that way, but implementing it after all that’s happened is creating massive regret in tens of thousands of players and is such a completely tone deaf move that will definitely demoralize a lot of players long term