Honestly I was speaking more of previous MMO's. But if the race is to be the first person to solve the puzzle while they have a color and shape sorting machine helping... I'm not impressed.
There's still what I'd consider basic cheating going on. People who instead of pouring over logs or logically figuring out things look to a calculator and parser to map out the basics. Its now who half solves the puzzle first..
Again.. not impressive really. Puzzles in games always have a solution. There is always a "right" way to do it. People clamor for more and more difficulty but when presented with an exceptionally difficult puzzle go for the automation.