Quote Originally Posted by ellohwell View Post
Sometimes it's not as simple as that. Some addons become necessities.
I'd be willing to bet that if/when an add-on becomes a necessity over a perk, there would be more than one version to cater to different players' aesthetic tastes and preferences.

Also, I don't see anyone complaining about action bar and status icons in XIV having timers, but ho-LAWD did people wave their doucheflags when they found out some XI players used Windower's version of the same thing.