Yes, because you actually interact with other players - name one event in which people now randomly just sit around in the middle of the air for waiting for it to be over, or to hit a mob, or do anything at all
Let’s talk world design where the most intricate vertical aspect we have seen in the past 20 years was mountains - not layers of verticality, towers, ledges, ridges, nothing of those were anything but ever scenery, now because of just the simple fact that you have to be able to land on anything - everything gets designed to be part of the world, which means that you’ll find players there
With time each zone gets emptier and emptier as folks are more homogenized in the sense of their activities but that took months instead of weeks in DF
And this is an admission to the overall point; yes, people quest on the ground but there’s now a reason beyond just going from point A to point B to care about your environment because if you have to land you have to land, just that simple design elements mean a world a difference
Who would have thunk it, a change in how you traverse the world changes how you view and interact with the world - its amazing that one has to explain that
Btw, you kept saying “slippery slope” in terms of what I was saying … here’s two examples of the actual slippery slope fallacy: