Elephant in the 8.3 room: account wide essence unlocking (or lack thereof)

This seems like such a glaring issue, that I'm a little puzzled why Blizzard hasn't addressed this at all for 8.3 (beyond them going on record and saying that there will not be account wide essence unlocks).Most of the people I've recently talked to have stopped playing, or play less as a direct result of the essence grind and time-gating to even be remotely competitive on 120 alts. All of this in an expansion with a key feature being alts (allied races).How do you people feel about the grind on alts, if you've already done it on one char?Should it be turned account wide, or at least sped up / simplified on the next?