The New Sage Icon, Thoughts?

[Goji1639]

And yet when SE patch the flashing light in Nier raid, it didn't suddenly open the flood gate or whatever that you're referring to. So why this barely significant change they made would lead to anything?

Again, I didn't say it was a slippery slope. I just said that this change sounds like the absurdist end of a slippery slope argument.

What I am saying, however, is that addressing things this trivial in nature will shift peoples expectations. SE doesn't really want to move expectations in this direction, because it isn't sustainable; they'll disappoint way more people than they impress.

They sell plenty of merch with job icons on it, if people don't like it or are put off by it for whatever reason they might sell less of them.

For the presumably tiny amount of work and time I imagine this took that's a decent enough reason to take and go ahead and change it and benefit from it.

Again, it's more a matter of expectations. If SE wants to create the impression that they'll shift gears at any indication that anyone's sensibilities aren't being accommodated, then that's what people will start expecting of them. That's a rough precedent to live up to.