I don't enjoy stat distribution, character choices, and other things. That doesn't make me a "participation trophy" player, it means I find enjoyment in a different way of play than you do.
Forgive me if I gave that impression, but that was not even hinted at. When your choices have actual consequences, and to your actions, that is what I mean by participation trophy, when nothing you choose has any real effect at all and everybody wins that is the pure definition of the words in my book. Not knocking it, that's your thing, I need to know I'm doing something, anything that matters. In my opinion, all of the MMOs in the last decade have massive expensive worlds to explore, if THAT is your only goal then congratulations every MMO has achieved this by far.