Asking for a graphical update that can be enabled/disabled for people who want it is not entirely out of the question or unreasonable.

I'd like to remind people that Blizzard recently (I believe middle of last year) introduced a graphical update to World of Warcraft that you could turn on/off if you so pleased.

If SE is taking most of their ideas from WoW (which they appear to be doing) then this is one idea which is totally viable for the future.