First of all, you did not waste all your time leveling miner, you keep your levels and get to mine higher level items you can sell or use to produce trade craft goods. You were probably one of the ones who rushed to max level everything, and are upset now because things are being dumbed down. Do not get me wrong, I am not a fan of dumbing things down either, but you had to know this would come sooner or later. You do not deserve something to make up for it. Stop with the self-absorbed entitlement crap. You chose to go out and level mining as fast as you did, SE does not owe you anything. If you have issues with things eventually being dumbed down, you are probably in the wrong game genre, just sayin.