I would use the feature should it be made available, I doubt it will be in the near future however, because video capture is not something that is easy to accomplish when you have to take into consideration the multitude of video drivers available on PCs.
I don't use the in game threat meter because the announcement feature isn't good enough. Then again I don't use any other threat meter now that tanks are far more capable of holding aggro. KLH and Omen were nearly essential in the 5 sunder days, now threat meters are simply a neat way to show you hit the mob before the tank did. You see they fixed the mechanic vs designing the perfect essential mod for the game.
Voice comm. I would use it if others did, but as a multiboxer I rarely need to explain the fights to myself so it's a bit less useful for me.
Arena Frames are more than just the pretty (or not so pretty depending on taste) pictures. They included the target=arena1-5 macro ability with them. This is something no other addon I know of made possible, and is now something hard to live without.
I use gear manager on a nearly daily basis, it does exactly what every other gear manager did minus the oops I just vendored all my gear "feature" included in many of the other addons.
You see blizz actually listens to the community, and when they see something that is wrong they fix it. Look at the rogue poison addons. They are changing the mechanics so rogues won't have to depend on an addon. How about CTRA how many people remember that being necessary to attend a guild raid let alone a pug? They built the raid frames and warning systems into the base interface. This means you can actually pug a raid now and be effective.
It isn't stealing from the community, it's giving it to the entire user base. They have lightened the load on people who dedicated their playtime to writing addons, so they too may actually enjoy the game. Sure the community addons are pretty and that's what makes the game unique. You can have the feature available and if you like it you can download an external addon and modify it to your wishes. If you choose not to do so, you can still play and not be horribly disadvantaged.
How far along do you think we would be should they have never decided to allow for the creation of addons at all? Do you really think we would have threat meters, raid addons, arena frames, square minimaps on a cool button interface, my guess is no, because the community wouldn't know it could be different or better. They allowed addon creation so the game would and could improve along the lines of community likes and dislikes. They borrow features from the popular addons because they realize it was something they left out at conception.
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