Alienation of Dedicated and Skilled players

[mirta000]

Even with preset builds, people choose to tailor their playing experience around the flavors of choice they like. For example, the same argument you made has always been used against talents in wow. Wow talents give you a bit more choice because most of the choices are minor. In most instances, it's only the final few talents that sort of force your hand with what builds you are using.

and every one of those choices matters not, if you're told by the community that you did a bad with your build and should do this instead if you want to be useful. WoW used to be very build heavy in vanilla, but over the years they streamlined a lot.