Quote Originally Posted by Solowing View Post
I take that pita as a unintended friction that allows for emergent moments. Not it needs to stay bad, but what's lost is a lateral level of thinking.
Respectfully disagree.

As someone that has done stuff the "old fashioned way"; Your point is true that it engages your creativity - but using tools does likewise as those tools may (and do for example) open up options you do not have. Iteration born of your initial hardship can be augmented with the introduction of greater tools. I think the MoP comparison is perhaps "unfair" as Blizzard stripped the foundation of character identity when the new talent system came into place - you were not gaining a tool; you were overall losing tools and with that loss the options those tools provided. While it is true for example many players will never learn how to do floats or inverted mounts - the addition of those tools will also result in their ability to interact with the 3d space being improved and thus open avenues of discovery that could very well augment what otherwise could not be done due to either technical limitations or merely the freeing up of mental bandwidth.