"Nothing is withholding you from installing those addons too."

Yes, you can do that, but it won't help you to compete unless you also have hours a day to spend at the AH. That is the issue, the AH camping behaviour that these addons encourage and make simple to do.

Pfooti is getting down-rated because, for all his verbiage, his basic argument is that if you don't have that time then tough shit, you don't deserve to sell your stuff.

And the argument that this will cause prices to rise is bullshit, classic FUD being spouted by people afraid of facing more competition and losing their monopolies. Thats a large part of what AH PvP is about, as evidenced many times in this column - driving your more casual competitors out of the market so that you can control the prices. Just as in any real-world market, that's not good for the consumer in the end.

Blizzard obviously sees something wrong with the way things work atm, as pretty much anyone with any sense predicted they would after the QA3 "works-just-like-a-bot-but-isn't-technically-a-bot-under-the current-rules" addon. Now they're taking steps to fix it, and Pfooti doesn't like it, and we don't care.