This legit sounds like someone who has an addition trying to justify their actions.
It’s like saying “Life doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have to deal with horrible low points!”
No, it just means you have a better life lol.
Add the gold sinks elsewhere then. The issue isn’t inherently the cost (especially since it’s incredibly low and capped at a super low price on SoD, although some people don’t like the cost), but rather having to hearth, run to your trainer, reset your talents, put all your talents in, re-do your whole hotbar, run back to a gryphon, fly back to wherever you originally were. Then you have to go back and do it again just to go back to your original spec.
Like for me personally, if they made is so you could only switch your dual spec while in a rest area and also made it cost 20s every time, I’d still use the hell out of it just because it automatically fills out your talents (because you did it once before) and it swaps your hotbars.
And telling an npc “hurrdurr reset me” and then being able to instantly respec after paying the money to that npc isn’t “immersion breaking”?