I went into Dawntrail already feeling demoralized because they dumbed down my favourite job, Monk, by removing timer management and just making it "follow the glowing button". Then I found Viper and my interest was renewed. Pretty simple overall but it had some of the timer management I liked, I liked how it looked, it felt good to play. This was something I could see myself playing long-term, I was enjoying logging in each day and playing again.

I didn't even get to enjoy the job for a single damn patch before it was torn away from me. At this point it feels like the devs hate me specifically, like they don't want me in particular to have fun. Everything I like gets dumbed down until I hate it and I'm just so fed up.

There's still things about the game I enjoy but every time I think about playing I'm reminded that they screwed up Viper for no good reason and I get so annoyed that I lose all interest. Everything I find fun just gets lobotomized to try to appeal to players who don't even really care and who will still won't press the right buttons anyway. No point giving feedback because even hundreds of people turning up on the forums to say to leave something alone isn't enough to counter complaints from 2 players saying it's too complex.

If Noxious Gash is restored as it was then I'll come back, but I've played long enough to know the devs are stubborn and hardheaded about their "improvements" and basically never walk back changes no matter what the players say, so I'm not hopeful. To all those who complained and who will say "I like the changes actually": May you have all the simplification you ever wanted. I've had enough.