/sigh

You guys are making my point for me.

But we aren't going to reach agreement on that, so continuing on is pointless.

But I think the argument does hold that people will not call simplifying THAT THEY LIKE "dumbing down". I think that should be obvious. "dumbing down" is a derogatory statement, and people simply won't use that about something being made simple which they like.

Old SMN was clunky as hell. It was "not working". Old PLD was also clunky and was "not working" in the modern combat design.

Both were changed, and both called "dumbing down". The difference between those and LD is (1) the changes were made to the rotations/GCDs and (2) the changes were ones the players deriding them didn't like.

Imagine, if you will, a change that made a Job simpler but which you liked. You likely would not call it "dumbing down" under any scenario.