If you want a game that is 'difficult' by default, but addons make it easier for 'casuals', how do you stop everyone else from trivializing the content by getting addons?

Trust me, addons don't make it any easier for casuals and raiding. You can have a HUGE warning with sirens and gigantic text flying at you that says move, and the bad player will still panic if he doesn't know the strategy. Much like a bad "purist" will still fail to move when he fails to see the built in game warnings.
Linking casuals to addons is perhaps one of the more idiotic sentiments that the MMO community has laughed off. First off, the bleeding edge uses addons heavily not only for warnings, but for quality of life improvements. Secondly, most "purists" rarely get to high end content, they simply stand around the hub of their game (SW/Org for WoW, Ul'dah for FFXIV) and complain about "casuals" getting their addon blessed loot. Finally, the argument for and against addons is just another weapon for people to use in order to make themselves feel superior (on both sides of the argument). In other words, making the argument against addons "BECAUSE CASUALZ!" is merely just stoking the fires of your own ego.
Oh I know it's not a valid argument. It's just something that is thrown around here, along with immersion, to dismiss any improvements to the MMO genre in the last 8+ years. Addons making things "easy mode" or being "exploits" are arguments coming from people who have no qualms about stacking a single class (BLM or ARC) to actually literally cheese their way through a poorly balanced encounter.Trust me, addons don't make it any easier for casuals and raiding. You can have a HUGE warning with sirens and gigantic text flying at you that says move, and the bad player will still panic if he doesn't know the strategy. Much like a bad "purist" will still fail to move when he fails to see the built in game warnings.
Linking casuals to addons is perhaps one of the more idiotic sentiments that the MMO community has laughed off. First off, the bleeding edge uses addons heavily not only for warnings, but for quality of life improvements. Secondly, most "purists" rarely get to high end content, they simply stand around the hub of their game (SW/Org for WoW, Ul'dah for FFXIV) and complain about "casuals" getting their addon blessed loot. Finally, the argument for and against addons is just another weapon for people to use in order to make themselves feel superior (on both sides of the argument). In other words, making the argument against addons "BECAUSE CASUALZ!" is merely just stoking the fires of your own ego.
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