NO Addons please. There is another solution!

SWTOR DOESNT NEED ADDONS, IT NEEDS IN-GAME FEATURES.
This is the only way I would want a dps/threat meter (which is the only addon you need in this game). If I am ever forced to go to an external site and depend on them for addon support it will be the end of SWTOR for me. Addon's are the bane of MMO's and represent a complete lack of effort by developers to support their players.

This. No add-ons. Give us UI customization, but leave add-ons out.

I stopped there...

Nobody calls anyone else out, unless that one individual is such a drag on the group or prohibiting the group from advancing, that it's absolutely necessary to do so.

This "utility" you thought you were doing. As a ret pally you shouldn't even have been "off-tanking"...did you really have a sword + board macro ready at the press of a button? I'm doubtful. Because if you were taking damage with a 2 hander, you were just succeeding in spreading the damage around, making life HARDER for your healer.

And why would you need to off-tank in a 5 man? Tanking and keeping aggro on all mobs was a non-issue for the longest time.

Where's your competitive drive? if you knew everyone else was pushing for the highest possible dps they could muster, why didn't you feel in the spirit of competition?

I knew a mage who would think "hey why can't I melee if I felt like it?" and proceeded to stop all casting and meleed along with the rest of the group. So by your thinking, this mage had every right to do whatever he wanted, in the name of "fun", but dragging down the group.

That would be just fine, BUT the raid should be able to call upon that report after a wipe to see what went wrong. It should not just be accessible after a successful kill(or what's the point).

It be like saying, you're only allowed information if you deserve it, which is not helpful at all.

Gearscore but a bad addon only because of how it eventually got abused. But the point of the addon was to quickly assess if the player should even be qualified to for the raid.

You wouldn't bring in a freshly minted max-level player directly to the most difficult raid currently available, would you?

Also the stat that you missed is:

Absorbs (need to be able to see how much dmg absorbed by Static Barrier and other bubbles)

Nope, addons did not introduce any security holes. Addons had no ability to modify your filesystem, start up processes, nor alter any system settings.

The compromise that you are referring to, is from stuff like the Curse Updater, or players visiting sites which harbored drive-by scripts that installed trojans and keyloggers into your machine.

It had nothing to do with the addons themselves.

I disagree, speaking from a standpoint using wow as an example as you did. Add ons are not obligatory, do people use them? Yes. Do they in some cases make certain aspects of the game less stressful/easier to certain players? Yes, thats what they are for. Add ons are not meant to influence the game, or grant an unfair advantage over anyone else(those that do are usually quickly shot down). The primary purpose of add ons is for customization, to make the game better suit your personal playstyle, customizing controls, gathering and displaying information in forms that is more understanding/visibly appealing to you.

I help coordinate raids in wow even still, 2 nights a week. The only addons I use are a UI customization addon for my bars, a dps meter to monitor My damage during boss fights, and omen threat meter, since as a warrior there, I have high initial burst and sustained dps, so do tend to pull off the tanks, and I used to tank, and still do when our offtank is MIA.

All the wow nonsense aside, I would like to see add ons, primarily for the purpose of building a better UI, as I can barely tolerate the in game one now. And ofcourse I want my 2 simple meters to gather information. I could do without a dps meter if we had a in game combat log that I could gather a parse from, but we do not. However a threat meter, for me, is still something I don't like to be without. Especially with such a high influx of new MMOers who haven't yet learned the concept of, Let the tank get aggro before you go crazy.

OP is dead wrong we need addons

agreed