Profiles were they a Mistake?

Okay hear me out her ladies and gents.

Having profiles reminds me of what I like to call the Mod Dilemma.

I love to mod games. I have many games modded to the hilt. BUT I always keep one vanilla game and the software means to turn on and off mods  for each so as to enjoy the original game as it was meant to be played.

When you play a game you agonize over your build because you know that you are stuck with that build for the next x amount of hours. You learn to live within the limitations of that build and make the most of it, you carefully choose squadmates to compliment your build for whatever battle you think you'll be getting into next. And you triumph through you smart choices.

But throughout the game you often wish "if I only had that one power!" Let's say Warp for instance in ME2. I always felt I needed to bring Miranda because warp AND overload is just the bomb. 

Let's use Skyrim for an example as well.

As you play Skyrim many of us say to ourselves "I wish I could do this, or have that" But you are loving the game as it is, you just wish.

So you sooner or later you mod the living hell out of it, and like a kid in a candy store it's the greatest thing in the world! You have everything you could ever want.

But at what cost? You lose a lot of the drive, that motivation that pushed you toward certain goals, getting Nightingale armor, or leveling up smithing. But now you have it all and once the MOD RUSH is over you find yourself missing the vanilla version. And as you become a mature modder you learn to keep the modding more focused and lean with just certain quality mods that enhance but don't ruin gameplay.

So these restrictions in vanilla games help us to enjoy the game, provide challenge, motivation and in games like the MET replay value to try different builds.

But now enter PROFILES. I have it all, I can do it all. I have a level 84 character and I can do whatever I want. heck I don't even NEED any squadmates, at all esp with the dialogue bug.
And where is the replay value of say the MET to try out every class?  So I am in the "mod dilemma' I want it all except, I don't. 


Do you think that the profiles were in some ways a mistake? Do you think that they, in the long run downgrade the enjoyable factor? What is your take on profiles?