I'm all with you. SE gates everything fun behind useless things, like time (I'm looking at you sightseeing logs),
or unesseccary rules (oh you want to craft an fc airship? You need 3 people to afk next to you or it wont work, because lore says so or something I dont know people always say its the lore on these forums so im assuming thats the reason)
They ruined most of the things I was looking forward to with the expansion, and they are very good at taking terrible ideas, and then making them worse, and then saying "please look forward to it"