This is really odd, but many patch requests seem to be asking for all kinds of things to be nerfed. And when people ask for something like Destruction magic to get buffed, everyone tells them NO. I really don't understand this.

The game is single player, not an MMO. You are not competing with anyone else! Why ask the devs to make it harder for everyone?

I think you are close to the mark about MMO's. I think it has trained a generation of gamers to focus on character effectiveness over roleplaying a character, so perceived imbalances in the game touch a nerve where they feel one type of character is more effective than another.

I note that people who focus on roleplaying are less worried about such things, but I can't help but feel you get less of an experience when playing an RPG focusing on just the G for Game, when the real point to a game like Skyrim is to focus on the R P and G, triple the game