They’re not “dumbing it down,” necessarily, but it does look very much like the changes they’re making are to pave the way for porting to XBox.
This sudden acceleration of the timeline to remove third-party addons after 21 years of virtually zero interference with community modding looks like a deadline placed from on high to me.
The scramble to update a UI they let sit in the garbage bin, and now all of a sudden they’re racing to paste in some mediocre gap fillers before they’re forced to turn the lights out on wa and DBM? Yeah, that smells like a console port to me.
By the way, their Click Casting replacement for Clique is not sufficient, and I absolutely will not play a healer spec without those features.