I appreciate your viewpoints, but I disagree. Even the achievements that I wouldn't try (the pvp ones mostly) are not bull. Why is "The Immortal" a real achievement, but "Well Read" is crap? What if you play the game to RP and don't raid at all? Is it still crap even though that person takes pride in his "Well Read" and "Loremaster" achievements?

If you read the thread that was referenced, you'd see that the OP agreed that all achievements are optional. He also said that pvp is optional, heroic dungeons are optional, even doing a single quest is optional. If you wanted to, you could stay at level 1 the entire time that you play this game and buy and sell on the auction house exclusively. Does that mean that playing that way is required? No.

His real problem was changing the achievement rewards without real notice. I agree. How would we like it if Blizzard would say, "OK, Naxx is obsolete now, all loot is being removed and added to Ulduar. If you haven't completed Naxx by now, you can still run the dungeon, but the bosses will not drop loot or emblems."

I personally hope that they don't change "What a Long Strange Trip it's been" before I get the mount. I would list myself in the moderate player category, but I strangely become hardcore around the holidays.