Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Azuri]

If I did a 100m sprint over and over against Usain Bolt, I can't show the news stations the one run where he tripped over his shoes at the start and I won and say 'look guys I'm faster than Usain Bolt!' If there's gonna be a 'competitive' side to logs, there should be rules, livelog only, forced public, wipes included. Lastly, it's always made me laugh how these parse gamers want to have this supposed 'competitive' aspect to the game (ie competing for leaderboard spots, allstar points, whatever), but then they pitch a fit about add padding. 'Wah wah someone's group might hold back their own DPS so one specific person can do more damage to the adds and get a higher DPS value at the end, we have to remove the sunbirds from the parse in P3S', but then the dark fires at the very start WEREN'T removed, so you got ASTs throwing Star, Macrocosmos and Lord of Crowns at them, absolute insanity. Same with the P8S double damage buff, who gives a rat's backside, everyone's gonna have the buff (unless they die, in which case their parse is dead) so what does it matter? Something about holding buffs/resources until after the Ego Death res? But then people are gaming it by holding resources at the end of Phase 1, so they can go straight into Phase 2 and do it all in one go, without resetting. I just don't get it, and in some ways, I don't know if I even want to.

Your analogy is asinine. Usain Bolt had plenty of starts that weren't his best. He hasn't won every race he participated in either. This still doesn't diminish his world record. On the other hand, the moment you run 100m in less than 9.58s you can indeed claim that you are faster. Regardless of how slow your other attempts might have been.

And for all the shit people give him, Kirha is quite conscious about how his decisions may affect general raiding experience in the game and generally tries to avoid situations where parsing ends up hindering actually clearing the fights. If you remove Dark Fires from logs, no one will want to hit them. If you add Phoenixes into the log, people will stack them together and demand from everyone else to stop pressing buttons. If you keep Phoenix buff, the optimal way to parse will be to make the fight last as long as possible. While not everyone will agree with those decisions it's fair to say that some thought goes into them.