I hadnt played much in awhile because I have been busy with mods, but last night I was checking out EL because I hadnt in awhile on the beta client. I found the journey system to be a big improvement personally. I never use boosted rates so the initial packs and things were nice and if I put my modders hat back on, its a great method for adding rp elements in the devkit for pc. Its a very nice framework for customization beyond its base game usage. I can see how that would be lost if people are unmodded or using mods that dont utilize it, but even on its own I prefer it to the old journey steps. Even the fact that if you dont want any hand holding at all, you can just clear the first journey and not select anything and its pretty much out of view.