I guess it's none of my business how you feel about XP. I feel much the same as you, but I do think that having XP on invidual nodes is useful. We appear to be able up-/downvote your nodes, so I'm happy. I'm glad you've decided to stick around despite your disagreements with "the system"---but perhaps leaving was something you never really considered, anyway.

Don't your miss your much-coveted user image on your home node? ;)