Specialist Recipees: Why do the developers keep listening to bad requests?

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And my main problem is, I love this character, I've been playing it since 2010, I have no intention of leveling an alt, and I imagine there are more like me.

Well that's a problem of your own making then. You have the option of access to all specialization recipes even after they introduce this by making those alts, you choose not to do so which is on you. There may well be more people like you but there are also people like me who are glad of this news.

To me many of those who oppose this news seem to be either selfish, narrow-minded or simply treat this game like a single player one too much. As an MMO SE should promote/push people to cooperate and work together with such things including with crafting and gathering like FC workshops (I know there are housing quantity problems but hypothetically if there were not the system itself is good) and specializations should promote cooperation and working together also, the scrip system was also intended to do push that agenda but it still needs more tweaking/balancing. Overall it is pretty clear the direction SE wants DoL/DoH to go in and I for one appreciate what they are trying to do.