Best way I can describe how some of us feel:
Think Anet decided to make actual leveling account bound. Once you get to 80, all your characters are level 80 respectively along the ones you make after.
This would cause the following things:
1) People with 1 main character would be super happy
2) People with 1 main and few low level alts would be happy
3) People with 2 or 3 level 80s would be unhappy but would see the “benefit” moving forward with ability to play more toons the way they want.
4) People that put their time and effort into making multiple alts throughout the professions and getting them to 80 would be extremely unhappy. Because that time could have been spent playing higher level content getting much more rewards than they did while leveling their alts.
Now put that reasoning into fractals the way it is revamped right now. Most casual players are between points 1 and 2, some are unhappy about having their main level 40+ moved down to 30 (point 3). But then there is us dedicated fractal players that put time and effort into leveling each toon respectively to get each one of them into the desired level. When we could spend all this time being rewarded for playing high level content with our main alone.
If you don’t see it, then I have no idea how else I can put it to make other people see why some people are extremely upset with the upcoming update.