Shall I say that my UI was made purely for PvE once more? You seem to think the game is about PvP, and because of that Addons are useless. How flawed that argument is, is beyond my imagination.
My addons don't get on top of addons on top of addons on top of addons. I've been in the UI department since Vanilla WoW and since then the Addon community has grown infinitely. The addons are better, the support is better, they function without having to have 15000 libraries for each addon etc. Also, why would I want to use scripts for my actionbars, when an Addon does the same, and a lot more? Afterall, the addon are basically scripts.
You say your screen only shows visible important cooldowns. When I look at the screen, I already see 2 bars with the exact same cooldows. I'm guessing this is because of paging but still, you show the exact same information twice in the exact same way. Any good actionbar addon would have fixed it. The placement isn't optimal either. Everytime you have to look at your sprint or kick CD, you have to get to the bottom of the screen, away from all the action (which is important in PvP, no?). Again, a good CD addon or Actionbar addon would show the exact same information in a better place. A place YOU, the interface USER, prefers.
You're saying your unit frames show as much as mine. This might be true, it's the way the information is shown and getting rid of the useless information. I don't need a gigantic Paladin icon to know I'm playing a Paladin. I don't need to know my maxhealth constantly, I dont need to know my name or that I'm rested or in a PvP territory. I don't want the missing health to be a transparent bar.
I seriously have no idea what you've been reading. I literally gave you a list with design benefits over the default. From placement, to color use, to showing relevant information and getting rid of useless information, to how our brain processes information, etc. You're arguments are boiled down too: "I don't agree, the default UI provides this information in a good way. I play PvP."
If you adapted to playing with the default UI for your PvP purposes, good for you, come tell us all if you want. If you want to tell us and in the meanwhile basically say that Addons are useless and make you worse, then just leave because it's obvious you don't know a whole lot about them. Do they always make you a batter player? No. Are they always used in a way to make you a better player? No. Does this have anything to do with addons themselves? No. For some, making UI's or tinkering with it IS the game. Blizzard provides you with a way to make it your own, and it probably has the largest community ever, using it. How being able to change and mold the information for specific uses i a bad thing, is beyond me.
You know what can make them more efficient? Oh I know, Addons. That so many people use em wrong in your opinino, does not mean they always get used wrong. Quite a important detail.
I think you missed the part where I said I haven't played for years.
If I'm not mistaken, it was part of DBM itself.
How so? Boss mechanics are scripted events basically. I don't see how my placement makes me think less about what I'm doing, it just brings all the information about what is happening closer to me.
I use non actually so I constantly think about it. It's why I have the CD addon with the information I need. Having them at the very bottom just forces me to leave the area where everything is happening, in case of my UI also leave the area with the most vital part for a healadin.
Perhaps, but the improvement of default raid frames does not mean raid frame addons become worse. They still do what they're supposed to do. And since it's community made, they keep getting updated (well the popular ones do).
That might be true, but that does not mean it improves people that know what to do. I can say without a doubt that my years of making UI's made me a better player. I would not have been healing my raid teh way I did with the default UI. That and I'm a sucker for design (an amateur sucker) and I wouldn't even been able to play the game for such a long time without the ability to change it's UI.