If you continue to make things so easy, and hand hold everyone for everything, eventually nothing feels like an accomplishment. You never feel like you earn anything, you never feel like anything was challenging. That's exactly the problem with this game now, and they keep adding features that continue this trend. That's why it's a problem to "let people play how they want". If someone wants to be lazy and not pay attention, it should slow their progress and make them miss things, you shouldn't hold their hand to ENCOURAGE them to do this. That's simply bad design, but it seems to be the current new generation MMO trend. :/

With the way things are, and the things they add, you can kind of see the direction for this game. Very easy, very unchallenging, nothing earned, no accomplishments, everything handed to everyone and everything easy to get. I hope I'm wrong, but I lose more hope everyday.