Poll: Gear progression, horizontal or vertical?

[Daranion]

This is purely a poll in reaction to the reaction I tend to see everytime new gear is announced. So in order to get at least a somewhat reasonable sample of the general forums opinions, I would like you to answer one simple question and save much of your debate for the other ilvl thead that's posted around here. Please keep answers short and easy to tally.

Do you prefer gear progression to be vertical: increases to your HP, and main stat, with side stats being an after thought.

Or do you prefer your progression to be horizontal pseudo with gear sets having relatively the same ilvl but with additional effects such as increased parry, self regen when in sets, counterattack procs, chance for a double auto attack, etc.

Or would you prefer a hybrid merely meant to slow down ilvl creep such as every other patch cycle introducing higher level gear and the even patches merely introducing sidegrade items: IE glamor options that you can actually equip and be useful instead of just glamor crystalling them

Power Creep, or gear you hold onto for ages. Unique traits or higher impact numbers. Vote below!

PLEASE KEEP DEBATE IN OTHER MORE APPLICABLE THREADS TO REDUCE VOTE CLUTTER

EDIT: The standings right now are as of 7:11 PST
Vertical 20
Horizontal 16
Hybrid 12
Arguing/Debating/Voting for things not on poll or wasting space 77