I agree wholeheartedly with the part about “better understanding” of certain terms in the rules. Hell, I even agree with changing the game design to make it impossible to abuse game mechanics, as long as that change isn’t a nuclear change that removes the ability to use those game mechanics responsibly.
For the same reason we don’t want to remove the chat because you can write racist stuff in it or remove torches because you can abuse them to lag people. That’s the “nuclear” option, if you want to be polite, or the “half-assed band-aid” option if you don’t.
If it’s still not clear why, it’s because you can use it for decoration without getting banned. Especially on PVE(-C) servers, where no building technique gives you competitive advantage over anyone else, and you just have to worry about performance degradation.
I wish I could, but those builds were on an old server where I stopped playing a couple of months ago and I let everything there decay.
It wasn’t in hundreds or anything like that, it was just some fancy looking gates.
I never thought of using it for stairs, like @biggcane55 mentioned, so I would love to see some ideas on how to do that, maybe in the Share Your Shelter thread.