That was my big takeaway. Like, excuse ME? There are trolls, people who like to argue any point where they can be contrarian and bootstrap enthusiasts who basically want everything to be like it was in Vanilla forever, but I never got the impression that they were a large or passionate contingent that needed to be satisfied.
The only people who feel passionately about no flight are the developers, who don’t want to deal with designing worlds that can be engaged with on a vertical as well as a horizontal axis.