It was too much fun to be had. They had to patch it before everyone gets their 16 skins. /kidding

Considering this has been in the game for years treating it now feels like a double standard because while it is treated as an exploit NOW none of the exploiters can/will be punished and the only ones being punished are the ones that learned of this now and never used it.

It also reduces the value of the commitment of the players that did use it because now you can say people exploited their achievements because overlord ArenaNet in their infinite wisdom flagged it as such.

Put the skins and achievements on the list I am going to boycott.

This kinda reminds me of the Hungry Hal achievement (Ember Bay), except there it is just a crappy achievement overall and fixing that just left us with what it is, a crappy achievement that you can boycott if you didn't exploit it when it was released.