Why so adamant on keeping the Market Place?

[Abriael]

So you agree that your reason was crap? I have come up with something better, in fact my entire argument is pretty solid,

Considering that your entire argument is based on a "majority" for which you have no numbers (and very possibly doesn't exists) and on the fact that you personally like an AH more than Market Wards, i see no solidity there.

This without mentioning that while there's absolutely no function of an AH that cannot be implemented in the market wards, there are several areas of the market wards that cannot be implemented in a classic AH system (visual shopping and impulse purchases are two prominent ones).

The fact that an AH works well on SOME other games (not all games have one, and there are several alternatives that work very well in other games), doesn't make it the only viable system. It's that simple.