It was an interesting system for sure, but also a very bad one. You can't just pump more and more sidegrades into the system and expect good things to happen from it. All it lead to was people needing to use 3rd party tools to make macros to utilize it all, and created an absolute inventory nightmare that is still there to this day.

Vertical gear progression and ilvl is a good thing, and one that I'm hoping they stick with. As was already said, you don't need ilvl for people to judge you by your gear. They will already do that. Bad gear will be bad and good gear will be good regardless of what number SE puts next to it.