Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
This is also my worry: that this addon or addons like it that might come after make might SE feel compelled to do something instead of the usual practice of turning a blind eye. And that something might break the more mundane, but important to raiding addons.

Maybe I'm worrying too much.
The one thing I will say that will put your mind slightly at ease: Yoshi P does see both sides of the argument. He is an MMO player, and he sees the use of addons in other games, and recognises their importance to the raid scene. They cannot officially endorse them however because they do not want to divide the playerbase or create a situation where "parsers are mandatory because the devs said so". Thats why we currently have a "don't be a dick and you wont be banned" rule.

Notably, Arthus was banned for harrassment, not use of third party tools, that is a very notable use of "you will be banned if you use a parser to be a dick", but like you said about pandoras box, what are the implications of that? I would love to see an official statement from Yoshi P regarding the devs opinion of addons, but I doubt that would happen, I'm not sure what he would even say.