Comment by phendrenad2

> We were all MMO-naive

Not just that, we were in the dark too. The information out there about the game wasn't very good. Want a map of a dungeon? You'll have to find some crowdsourced hacked-together jpeg. Now, you can watch a full dungeon walkthrough in 4k 120fps on youtube.

> minmax ultragreedy automatons

This has spilled out into the metagame too. People actively complain about anything that moves the game away from a "1-click win button", and will laud any change that moves closet to it. Automatons indeed.