Legendary fish and the upcoming update

[Sated]

Why should fishing be different?

Fishing is a very different kind of activity that doesn't hinge on watching numbers go up incrementally week-over-week, it's really nothing like raiding and that's why I enjoy it. It's a very different kind of progress, not one that becomes trivialized, just receives general QoL improvements from abilities you pick up from leveling. The gear helps an appropriate amount, not an unrealistic amount. There's no reason for legendary fish to be trivialized unless they add a story to it, it's entirely optional and exists specifically for the challenge of doing it, where raids offer rewards and lore that should be more accessible over time from a gameplay standpoint.

At the same time, making it easier wouldn't affect me as long as they also include a means for it to still be done with an appropriate difficulty for those who actually enjoy fishing, so I don't mind if they do make it easier as long as there's also a way to preserver the challenge, I just don't understand why anyone would do it if it wasn't for the satisfaction of actually doing it - that's kinda the main draw of fishing being a side activity.

Edit: Being honest it's very difficult to resist an "easy mode" button when one exists. The hardest part of catching fish for me wouldn't even be the missed bites anymore, it would be resisting flipping on easy mode and that's not fun. So yes, ultimately I'd prefer it stay the way it is so that I don't have to make that decision in the first place, but also because it makes sense to me the way it is now.

The fish doesn't care. The fish doesn't care that we're the WoL. Those abilities don't help. Buying new shoes to be more comfortable wading in the water helps marginally but that's about it. The fish cares what bait we have and if it's raining today. It might care about Powerful Hookset in a few seconds but otherwise there's no power-creep that would make sense to me for it to be any easier at "level 80", which is a arbitrary/meta concept. I think that's the root of why I enjoy fishing, and why it wouldn't make sense to me for it to magically become easier. Fishing is pretty mundane, and that's kinda why I like it.

Or maybe I'm just sadistic and enjoy watching my WoL struggle with something that "should be easy", I donno.