Everquest during one of their expansions added portal stones between the main cities so people could join up with their low level friends. It was one of the most community requested features at the time.
To this day people still say that these portal stones 'killed' everquest
In some cases its different players, in some cases its the same
I'd wager a lot of the people railing that these changes dumb it down too much are the same people that cant handle it if their roulette takes longer than 10 minutes. If they made these harder they would complain about not wanting to get into groups with sprouts because the dungeon might take, *gasp*, 15 minutes!
Also, everyone focus on what they made easier but not what they made harder (although the MSQ roulette stuff isnt hard, its less braindead than it used to be)
Just like how everyone talks about simplification of summoner while ignoring adding mudras to Monk to make it more complex
