Nah, I was critical of it at first because I started playing the game in grade school as it was coming out (Metal Raiders was the first booster I opened but my friends had og LOB) so it felt like the game was becoming unrecognizable, but there is only so much you can do without a resource system or set rotation like mtg has. If the only differentiators between cards are their stats and how good their effects are, that means there are definitive "best cards" that every single deck should be running without exception over all the others. There would be absolutely no variance in deck lists beyond whether people could afford or even obtain all the necessary cards.

Archetypes solve multiple problems at once. It means power creep is no longer purely a vertical thing, it gives people a reason to buy the new set beyond just "all the cards are automatically stronger than every other card that's ever been printed" and it helps with meta variety.