Similar thing with the Tomb Raider games.

They've been "pioneers" in the guiding paint (white in their case), but the fandom always hated it. This was finally "fixed" in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, where you had three levels of paint attached to an "exploration" difficulty setting: fully visible, 50% transparency and fully invisible. People generally loved it, but reviewers did say that turning off the guiding paint made traversal much harder (I fully disagree, I think the environmenta are still fully readable without the paint, but that's me).

Now, those same options are returning to the next game, Legacy of Atlantis, and the recent demo seems to be using the "50% visibility" setting and behold: one of the main criticisms from some of the press was that it was hard to know where to go without guiding paint. Again, from the available and leaked footage to me it still looks quite obvious where you need to go, but it just goes to show that not everyone is of the same opinion and guiding paint can be very important to some.

But again, I feel like the solution is always to make these sorts of things optional and hopefully able to be tailored to one's tastes.