Nostalgia of Pre-BigBang Maplestory

I don't know how you can argue about difficulty in MapleStory when literally all it is is time. It's not difficult for me to press buttons ad infinitum, perhaps if I had a physical or mental disability, but I don't. All MapleStory was pre-BB was a time suck. You spend hours on end to gain ten percent, and when you got ten percent ten times, you did it again. If perhaps your fingers slipped and you died, add some more time.

Seriously. Saying that the game was "dumbed down" baffles me.
Whenever I want to play something mind numbing the first game that comes is MS.
Most skills have no cooldown, other than damage reflect monsters have no life threatening skills, and if it wasn't for the 100 attack/buff limit you could just stand in the same spot for hours and hours and hours without having to do much but press your main attack and maybe buff once in a while. If it means that before BB you needed skills to use your pots in time let me just laugh. Stats? You had three options no secondary stat, low secondary stat or whatever equips required. So hard!!!