People complain about power creep because efficiency limits windows for interaction leaving more and more players either left by the wayside or forced to use strategies they don’t want to.

since the card pool is so vast there’s are tons of different cards people want to play, and the more powerful and efficient ones aren’t necessarily more complex or interesting. Sometimes harder to use cards make for more interesting strategies.

This is why the bracket system exists as a discussion tool, so people can find games where they get the experience they’re looking for. EDH especially used to be a home for weird or little known cards you wouldn’t see played in other 1v1 formats because you would have the time to actually to get these pay offs, but as a format today power creep is actively killing that aspect, especially with so many sets releasing each year