Idea: Merit system

[RoyalBeef]

So instead you'd have people who would unsub when they find things like grind out merits to be busywork.

So you're saying people would rather stay subbed when there's nothing to do than stay subbed when they're given something to do? /doubt
And yeah, MMOs consist of busywork. That's the only thing that keeps them afloat. Aside from beasttribes etc, even the MSQ quests contain busywork. So people grind out beattribes for some silly mount, and go through extreme lengths to farm glamour sets, but make them complete the same busywork for actual improvement of their character, suddenly they start whining about it being a bad thing. You're doing stuff anyway, and you rather have that exp go to waste instead of being able to use it for character improvement? Doesn't make any sense.

For the players who don't engage in endgame content those perks wouldn't bee needed anyway, so they could completely opt out of getting them, so nothing would change for them.