I've heard nothing but bad things about the visual noise in P12.

I think my only bad experience has been back when I tried Eden's Verse (Savage), and I wouldn't say it was noise, maybe unnecessary, but from an accessibility standpoint (and I don't mean difficulty, as it was fine in that department) - It's like they've had occasions where they've decided to learn about what would be good practice or what would be considered good practice and just veered in the complete opposite direction.

Can't say I've really cared about raids at all since then - If I do them it's because I have nothing better to do.