I'm so torn with this.
I love playing MMOs, playing with others and whatnot, but there aren't any MMOs out there that are more interesting than Guild Wars 2 at the moment. But the fact that ArenaNet is going in a direction I don't like just feels wrong, I don't want to support that, but there is no other MMO I can go to at this point, because I really like the way Guild Wars 2 works at the moment. New content, new things to explore, new mechanics, all that works for me, but gear progression is a no for me.
In an interview a long time ago they wrote that gear progression is not something that is needed in Guild Wars 2, the players wil progress in other ways, but they seemed to have scrapped that by now.
I don't really know what to do.