I would like to say at this point I personally have no objections to the actions that the devs have taken.
This thread started off with trying to look at WHY people were getting so upset about it.
It morphed (as these things do) into suggesting ways to make it more palatable for those that were upset.
Most people have given the line of ‘it hurts new players and they won’t come back to the game’, but I have yet to read any complaint from a newish player that objects very strongly.
Whether the reason for the devs to kill that specific process is to stop alts from gaining 50 levels in 5 hours or to stop spamming easy levels for cheap plot gains is kinda getting away from the point I think.
I guess it was an attempt to get people to look at why they were getting so upset and hopefully look at things from a perspective other than their own.
Heh, sorry, that comes across as a bit pretentious, but can’t think of how else to put it!