Well, we survived the first big shake-up... maybe we should get badges made up to say
I lived through CU1 and I lived through CU2 !!!
I agree it's a great shame to lose all the interesting professions and the hybrid possibilities (what happens to all our profession badges btw - will they all go blip??). After all, that was one of the really cool things, along with the ability to change at will. Yes this will make it all a bit more consoley and simplified and they'll certainly lose players, but I'm happy to keep playing and wade through all the new bits just cos it's the social side that kinda outweighs all the bugs and holes and developers' 'bright ideas'
Checked on TC and all the profession badges and all are still in the character window... presumably the console people will have less badges to get - otherwise they'll all kick up a fuss moaning why they can't be a Squad Leader or Chef