I would be happy to see a change to skill ups if it required a unique and similarly time consuming strategy. It's not like skilling up takes skill. It just takes time. If there were multiple time wasters opportunities to skill up, people could pick and choose and not get so bored spamming spells on worms or themselves over and over again.

But actually saying that changing how you skill up is dumbing down the game is a ridiculous statement. There is barely a dumber thing in the game than just mindlessly casting spells over and over again to skill up enhancing magic or SMN skill or BLU magic.