Except for the fact that it is a "sky is falling" situation. People are quitting over this and not just a few. There is a massive problem with finding new players for raids and even if old ones return they can't catch up at all meaning that bringing them along is not viable. All of this isn't going to get any better in 5.2 as there are no new dungeons to allow the vast majority to catch up.
Instead they're artificially slowed down, forced to rely solely on RNG and a painfully slow gear acquisition rate that forces them to do dailys for a long time with characters to actually be able to spend their points. Arguably shorter when playing an alt.
This means that a lot of people will eventually be left behind in the dust with no feasible way of catching up to the main field, that the main field itself will be stretched out over several progress steps, that raids will have difficulties with finding appropriate players with appropriate gear and a lot of frustration.
The current design is bad, their plans for the immediate future are bad and this hurts the community a lot. The afterwaves of this will be felt for a long time, even once they get rid of it. Because the current system is combinating the worst out of several expansions. People say that MoP PvP at the start was bad and a lot of people quit over it, but MoP PvE isn't much better for the most part, it just takes longer to drive people away.
So what? The vast majority of people liked that. They liked being "done" with those zones, being done with things such as the Molten Front and not having to return, ever again. It was part of having "accomplished" something by knowing they don't have to repeat it. Dailys are not enjoyable even less so if you have to repeat them to infinity.
The game did just fine in Wotlk when it was at it's peak. There were no forced dailys, hanging out in Dalaran was a non issue, the only real problem was ICC going for way to long. This is fixing a problem that only exists in a vocal minorities head with a sledge hammer. It's like your child is crying and to solve that problem you're shooting it into the face with a magnum.This is not a vacuum, there are other goals and objectives that need to be assessed. Something inevitably has to give. The goal was to get the world busy again, open up players to the rest of their server, cultivate world PvP, and add some length to a game that just six months ago had absolutely nothing going for it.
This solves the crying problem for a short time, but the long term problems will be quite severe and heavily outweight the gain of the child having stopped crying.
Their current system hasn't even come into full effect yet, just give it some more time and see how great things will be once people are spread out over two tiers. And it is not "a few" or "some" players, it is a great many. The forums are a very bad place for getting decent feedback for a great many things, but the players in game defending dailys and thinking them a great addition in their current incarnation are nigh non existant. Instead there's a great many anger and hatred of them. This isn't something you would want in a game, ever.I understand that some players are hurting. And again, my posts are being looked at from a hostile "tough shit" angle when that is not the intent. The point is... it's not that bad. As much as people loathe, lament, and cry out with disdain... it's not that bad. The game is not dying because of dailies, and sensationalizing the effects of having reputations makes it harder for me to sympathize with you.
And in all honesty, I am at 67~ exalted factions. I have done most of those in game. And I absolutely hate and loath this new system. Yet I keep getting told by green equipped players with hardly 5 exalted factions who haven't even touched upon the Pandaria factions beyond the initial quest set to "stop being casual" and "suck it up". Kind of baffeling.
You don't get to decide that, stop trying to make this decision for all of us.The divide ultimately boils down to what people think valor gear is, what they're entitled to, and what they should have to do in order to get it. I get the frustration, but it's not that bad.