When a change goes in that reduces the ability of any single race/class/cabal/whatever type of character to fight, do you expect people who play habitually/are currently playing these types of characters to say "Oh, my character just got made weaker. Hooray for more hurdles!"?

I'm not trying to be a ####, but you make it sound like all anyone wants is to be able to steamroll over anyone else and thats their idea of fun. I just don't see this as a realistic picture of how the majority of the playerbase actually feels (A certain smaller cross section of the playerbase, sure), and I think you know this. If it was, do you think you would see as many healers, muters, and thieves as we do? These classes aren't typically known for their power so much as their survivability because of the abilities each possess/can possess. I don't think you really feel that way either, or you wouldn't put the kind of work into CF that you do. If we really felt that way, we'd all be playing doom in god mode and CF could piss off.

While I realize your remark was probably at least half tongue in cheek, it still came across as very much a snide crack at what has been, at least from everything I have read(Admittedly you all have probably gotten a ton of whiny emails that nobody here has seen but you), constructive criticism of a new change. Nobody is saying "WAH! YOU FUXXOED MY CHAR!" like after haste preps were removed and the other recent changes to ABS. I don't think anyone could possibly think this change will completely incapacitate their ability to play a character affected by it. But I also don't think the attitude you expressed in your post, basically blowing off valid (and constructively written) posts just because they aren't all tickled pink about their character being weakened, is doing anyone any favors.

Not all criticism is bad, and I really wish there wouldn't be so much defensiveness over people giving you negative feedback about changes that are made.