No more Island Sanctuary

[Winterfang]

It's not tied to power progression as such, but if the True Endgame (glamour) is your thing, they have filled it with basically all of this expansion cycle's glamours besides the crafted/treasure-map ones.

Compared to last cycle where we had the Firmament as our major source of glamours, and those came with the choice of earning it yourself or letting someone else do it and purchasing the end result, it is tedious that this time you have no choice but to level it up yourself (per character you play with) if you want any of the outfits.

That's what they did for V&C. It's lackluster content that misses the mark, but at least the majority (Admittedly not all) of the rewards are purchasable from other players.
And doing the IS very badly will eventually still get you the rewards. It's essentially a very very low effort timegate for those glam pieces.
Not defending the IS, just saying that I can see why the Glam pieces from the Island aren't purchasable in the first place.

[Heh]

I just want the option to teleport directly to your island sanctuary base

[Atelier-Bagur]

It's not tied to power progression as such, but if the True Endgame (glamour) is your thing, they have filled it with basically all of this expansion cycle's glamours besides the crafted/treasure-map ones.

Compared to last cycle where we had the Firmament as our major source of glamours, and those came with the choice of earning it yourself or letting someone else do it and purchasing the end result, it is tedious that this time you have no choice but to level it up yourself (per character you play with) if you want any of the outfits.

That can be said about anything in this game but what glamour you want is completly subjective and is varied from player to player. Not every player who goes for glam does every content that has rewards to it.

In an MMO, power progression is first and foremost and since IS isnt tied to it, thankfully that isnt an issue. Although criticism for the lackluster activity is still warranted.