Quote Originally Posted by Gez View Post
That's also consistent with magic wanting to be used, but not by too many people at once, and pulling the rug from under everyone's feet when it became too widely known. Magic itself must have limited processing power. And so when it was convinced that it was inevitable everyone would know anyway, magic shifted from a fully-automatic to fully-manual mode, and now getting the automatic treatment requires spending more of your own power in exchange.
That makes a lot of sense. I wonder if Dan had the same idea about the "not-change".