The primary argument that I can think of against making buffs passive is Phantom. If explorer skills such as Meso Guard, Magic Guard, or Recless Hunt are turned into passives, Phantoms could no longer steal those skills. However, I do agree that there are way too many active skills and buffs on certain classes, and that keyboard clutter should be reduced.
1st: Nostalgia, Stockholm syndrome and being conditioned to a skinner box. Also I really like the core concept of the game.
2nd: It's all right, it's fairly unique witch is a plus.
3rd:
* By fixing all the broken stuff (there's a whole lot of broken stuff)
* Making the client better on a technical level (such as giving us more thank three resolution options, making the game perfrom better)
* Fixing all Nexon's server side stuff
* Giving the game some mechanical depth
Also there's a bunch of more things that I'd change but I feel like explaining them would require going into too much detail.
4th: As far as I know, the primary way Nexon makes money off of this game are items used to re-roll certain stats on items, and "mystery box" type of items that can give some quite powrful items that can be only obtained from those boxes.
5th: Depends if the content is any fun or worth doing. If there was another game like this, I would likely at least try it out.
6th:
* Balance: The power difference between rich and poor players is fairly staggering. I am not too sure about class balance, other that that there is at least one class that is pretty much worthless.
* PVP: There used to be PVP and it was very unbalanced. It has since been removed.
* PVE content and quests: I would argue that in the current state of the game most of the content is not worth doing. There are some high lights here and there, but most of the stuff is fairly bland.
* Other thoughts: I would recommend trying the game out. However, I would not recommend spending any money on it untill you are absolutely sure you want to. Even then I would recommend only buying convinience items, such as a pet that picks items up for you. Also don't be afraid to ask any questions from people, there are many mechanics and pieces of content that are poorly explained.
