Also as a badger, honestly it feels more like better game accessibility to me.
There's a difference between badges you can get by putting in a ton of effort, and badges you just can't get unless your real life circumstances happen to line up with the game you like to play and WANT to put that ton of effort into. It's that second one that I have a problem with.
Plus, it's not just about the journey, sometimes the destination enables you to go on a different journey. Like costume fanatics, RPers, and alliteration fans wanting the 'sinister summoner' title for necro or demons. It's not just one type of player that this interacts with, I see no reason to let strictly availability be a gate to this kind of thing.
I would ADORE echoes of holiday maps, not even just for the badging availability, but that too.
Also where do we get those trained professionals making sure we don't badge too hard, people have been expressing worries about me lol