Well don’t get me wrong I’m a builder myself ,and since you know neebs Gaming imagine that one of my clanmates is a thick44 , and all the others are simons in terms of crafting/building and doras in terms of combat so I provided them a lot and built this on my own for our clan and my personnal pleasure 
, and let them work on the outposts , also I use solo for mod testing/building .
but I’m losing a lot with this change cause I’m part of the playerbase that would like to get 100 % of the different purge named thalls , ( I already got before the thall leveling system was introduced 1 of each fighter/archer / dancer that wasn’t purge ones ( if not for syra brennerhet ) placed down and eventually got rid of them since they couldn’t lvl up and there was “rumors” of imminent thrall limitation ) and now ask himself if he will even want to ingage in this mechanic ever again … because the potential destruction will not be leveled with enough reward ( I love my base more than I want all the purge thralls if they don’t offer anything “special” )
anyway you are also right in a certain point it’s a player choice , but it’s also a core mechanic .