Oh yes, the dumbing down.
You know I actually liked the f2p change as such overall. Because they gave us a lot of things that people like me wanted, in particular storage, cleaning up some vendor trash, the wardrobe (awesome feature). There were a few other items that escape me right now, where stupid code was cleaned up to the benefit of everybody, in the f2p code change although not directly connected to f2p.
But unfortunately that was the last change that had a good balance of good and bad, since then every update pisses me off more and more with either combat advantages sold in the store, more broken promises, dumbing down, more XP gain acceleration, you name it.
And the two things that went wrong at f2p, layers and server lines, seems to never have been fixed or adjusted. At least not by the time I stopped following.
When's Weatherstock, anyway?