I didn't hit 50 but the time I did play in the game it seemed like a pretty neat system. Maybe I'll give Rift a proper shot now. It's got an expansion coming. Looked pretty sweet.
In any event that's fine I'm not calling for dailies to have all their reward removed just the rep requirement from gear. Blizzard has gone halfway there already. They just need to take that extra little step. Dailies are still extremely lazy on their part and especially these dailies which aren't varied from the regular questing experience at all but I could deal with them if the gear wasn't behind them. Removing the rep requirement harms no one and you will still be heavily rewarded for doing them, more than you've ever been in the history of wow.