Here is what I think about datacrons. The devs over at CG can't beat the theory crafters and they want to win so how do they do that is introduce datacrons as a means to flip the script and allow CG to control the meta.
It's a means of control that they introduce and change every quarter or third or whatever it is now. Rather than spend mental energy in creating a game mode or toons or whatever, they spend their time figuring out how to exert control over all the players.
For a nerd example, the DM that gets upset when a players wants to use a level 1canter spell that distracts a beholder and rolls a 20. DM changes the house rules the next encounter so that said player can't theory craft new ways to get around all the bad guys the DM puts out there.
CG needs to accept the fact that people are smart and will push boundaries in this game to maximize things. But rather than accepting that they want to enforce some so called randomness to the game so theory crafters have to spend money rather than actually push the limits. CG doesn't want to get better they just want to get even.
