Tell us how you really feel about gold = XP

“Honestly, the reason why I even addressed the whole, stupid Gold-for-XP or XP-for-Gold or whatever thing at all is because, shortly before I published that, I’d gotten drawn into several screaming matches in a few different places over the whole thing. I didn’t realize it was something people felt so damned passionately attached to. I heard a few factual claims, I made counterpoints, politely even, and then got slammed for it. And people wouldn’t stop slamming me even when I said, “Whoa, okay, I didn’t know this was a hill you thought was worth being reduced to component atoms on. You can have the hill. I’ll leave you to it. Please let me retreat”