Quote Originally Posted by Mirh View Post
Considering how many people are happily powerleveling, I think the concern is when you're running into problems avoiding it.
Pretty much what I was getting at was the subject of people who stick to one ideal to the point where they run into problems because of it regardless of what that ideal is. My post was largely just equating people who feel they're being pressured to quit because they don't want to be in a PL party (the OP said they felt "strongly influenced to leave [the] game") to players who feel pretty much the opposite way, i.e. players who would feel strongly influenced to leave if it were patched again (not necessarily removed, mind you, but significantly affected) as a way of making the point that inflexibility in general is a bad thing.

Aside from that, I fully agree that helping lower-level and/or less experienced players try new things and learn the game beyond an explanationless "go here and kill this" (such as what things to look for when considering where to go and what to kill, to use a simple example) is a good networking opportunity that too many people view as unimportant. At the very least, it's the "give someone a fish vs teach them to fish" situation.