Devs been doing a lot of dumb stuffs ever since Allods came out so nothing surprises me anymore XD
As much as I absolutely love and support this game...
The above statement is literally probably one of the most accurate descriptions of how I feel.
So much dumb...there is just no surprising us with some of the stupid crap they do to make the playerbase dwindle.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that you can say it about almost any MMORPG on the market. I've only seen one game release a truly smart thing. It was in a game whose name might mention runes and magic (except in Arabia, where it mentions might instead of magic), and at one point they released the "Magic Wardrobe" - a costume manager that makes the Allods one look sickly and anemic. You had your normal armour and other gear on the normal character panel, and a separate panel where you kept all your costumes. You could mix and match pieces, and apply colours to them, and create quick-access sets, and a set might give you a look derived from a mix of costume pieces and pieces of your real armour, but equally nothing at all in certain slots if that chocked your blocks. (No, not like that. All characters had built-in underwear...) It was an excellent feature, way far better than any costume manager I've seen anywhere including what they had before, and uncharacteristically all the manipulations you made in the manager (except for converting real armour items permanently into costume pieces) were completely free rather than substantially expensive as they had been before. Combined with occasional sales where they would offer lots of the (large range of) boutique costumes for (approximately) one crystal per piece, this made vanity costumes suddenly a very, very attractive proposition if that was your thing.
But it was a pure vanity feature with almost(*) no gameplay virtue whatsoever. I'm not sure what that says about us as players, (or, rather, about me as a player) that I remember this as the best feature in any game I've played.
(*) "almost" because with careful selection of costume pieces, hidden pieces, and dye colours you could create a costume set that made your character harder to see than normal...