Has there been any recent news or speculations about this "dead" feature? Oddly enough, it's still pretty useful to me. The broken randomness can sometimes spice up the gameplay/story. I've heard that...
Ah we Whims fans need to stick together. I find it a bit harder to focus on the aspirations that were introduced without whims backing them up than the ones that did before. The Realm of Magic ones especially.
Also I hold the opinion that people would have figured out what the Adventurous trait actually did faster if they attached some whims to it.