Quit contradicting yourself. These players are REALLY casual casuals and therefore have NO interest in a grind be it for heirlooms or level or anything else. They just want to jump in and play.
You can't argue that motivation for them and so your point is invalid. Either they care about grinding and are NOT REALLY casual casuals, or they don't and therefore STF(renamed to INSTANT MAX LEVEL) works perfectly for them.
Rumblood, the players we are talking about are NOT the hardcore/love steep learning curves/joining forums guys. Basically: THEY ARE NOT LIKE US.
So it makes a lot of sense that US at the forums are opposed to such ideas like easy learning curve etc..
cause we hate that, personally.
Thing is, WE/US that are hardcore players in a sense.. will not suffer from more noobs to kill. Neither will the gameplay.
You cannot give
heroin to any young naive fellow, he will simply refuse. You gotta start soft, with some weed, some speed, some E's, coke, mushrooms etc.. Eventually they are ready for heroin, and then their asses are ours. Cause cRPG is a bit like heroin.. Big leap to get into, but once you're hooked it gets you by the balls.