Power Leveling is an flaw and decreses the personal value of a Max level character.

[Vahzl]

I concur with pretty much everything you're saying.

I don't really understand the people who are totally fine with just essentially skipping the leveling process in an RPG. That's what an RPG is. And no, that's not a mentality of the past, it's just a fact of the genre. It seems to me that the kind of person who would want to bypass the leveling process of any RPG, is really not a person who is very fond of RPGs. It's someone who wants to play an MMOG, not an MMORPG, and they're coming into that genre and trying to whittle it down to what they want. And sadly, they're finding success.

RP does not mean Mindless Grind, it means Role Play.