It’s not a good analogy, because the camera of a game is a core feature. That it’s like changing WoW from tab target to active combat. Of course this will have effects on the game.
A better analogy would be a shooter, where you would have to add people to your friendlist in order to play with them. So in order to play a match you have to actively search for players, add them to your FL and then you can play.
But because this is to tedious for a lot of players the developers introduced a feature, that will queue you and automatically assign a match for you.
In this example again you can choose to not use the new feature and nothing will chage for you. You can still proceed to play matches with your FL, find new people for the FL and even run automated matches, to maybe find new people there, you can put on your friendlist.
It won’t alter the base game. It won’t even alter the old matchmaking. It just adds a new way of matchmaking. Any influence this has in the game or community is just speculation.
It’s just you can’t reason with people that have an irrational hate on a tool.
All the arguments go like:
“The RDF is bad because it will remove the social aspect”
Somebody explains, how there is no social aspect for most players.
“But cross-server will make the people more toxic because of the anonymity”
Somebody explains, how something like a server community, that punishes bad behaviour doesn’t exist and people can be and are toxic on their own realm too without the RDF.
“But the world will die if everybody instantly teleports to the dungeon or stand in Dalaran queueing for the RDF.”
Somebody explains, that this is the state right now without RDF and the RDF would actually liven the world up, because they can do stuff while questing instead of refreshing Addons or the LFG-Tool every minute.
“But I can’t exclude people from my party anymore”
Somebody explains how this is a good change, because there’s no reason to exclude people in easy content and is actually a toxic behaviour.
“But it was released at the end of WotLK”
Somebody points out, that it was the second to last patch in the middle of the expansion. Just like the guild banks where introduced in the second to last patch in the middle of TBC. And nobody wanted them removed and everybody was fine with them being introduced earlier.
“But the RDF will destroy the social aspect of the game”
It’s so tiring, to refute the same nonsense claims over and over again, just because some people fail to see reason.