Ya sadly level squishing just doesn’t do anything at all that’s real. It’s all psychological and we really need to stop trying to trick players into enjoying things in this game. It’s getting out of hand. If you dislike leveling, then don’t do it, plain and simple.
Either way, if they are thinking about this I hope they are thinking about a full rework of the concept of leveling. I would love to see a properly challenging option integrated in some way to offer challenge for players like myself so I don’t have to just wear no gear to be fulfilled.
They can make that be a main feature of the expansion if done right! Do this and make the no difficulty leveling option even quicker if you want since for some reason this seems to be constantly discussed.
Gives everyone what they want if you ask me.
Meanwhile just a squish alone does nothing other than trick the player into thinking leveling is more meaningful. I’m sure they have ideas that are more involved than just that though.