Punishing divas who jump ship before a dungeon even begins.

[CarnivalNights]

You could be hit by a bus tomorrow. Do you really want to waste another hour of your life waiting for newcomers to learn the mechanics in Aurum Vale?

Vertical progression is the problem, not the player base's response to it. Forcing long term subscribers to repeat content they hate, purely to keep lower level content viable for new players, is the issue.

Complete agreement with this.

It's not part of my curriculum to teach random new players how to play the game. Don't force this on me SE. I'm tired of it.