How about we don't push for Blizzard to take advice from someone who is notoriously bad at the game and who gets carried by his community? Just a thought.
There is nothing at all stopping a casual from downloading DBM. It doesn't require any thought or preperation whatsoever. Addons are not a barrier to entry just because people are too lazy to install an addon updater.Guess what the point of this thread is, discussing if that's the thing this game really needs, more barriers to entry...
Is this what we want to do? to remove addons and go back to Molten Core where the difficulty is decided by watching a fucking debuff timer at the top of the screen? Addons are a neccessity because we AREN'T in the world. Without some sort of haptic feedback we are massively limited by how information is able to be delivered if an addon is not used, which ultimately means that encounters would be required to be simplified to the extent that people just won't want to play. What are the alternatives? Glowing auras where you change colour? Special sound effects? Big arrows telling you were abilities are going to hit on EVERY encounter?
You think DBM or a Weakaura makes something like Mythic Stormwall Blockade easy? You think they make Mythic Artificer a walk in the park?
Raid encounters are able to be interesting and complex BECAUSE of addons like DBM and Weakauras, without them we are limited to visual hints in the form of buffs and debuffs, have fun calling them out Mr Raid Leader.