I agree that matching is fine - the only thing making GA anything less than great for me is all the "take my ball and go home" people that refuse to even play it. Winning by default is cool and all, but I'd prefer if people would just make an honest attempt.
I'm not sure what "believing in" slicing means though. It's here, it's not going away. You don't have to slice your mods to 6* if you don't want to, but asking the dev team to pretend the feature doesn't exist because you don't like it is just silly.