achievement points do nothing so nothing would change if they didn't exist.

the Archive rewards aren't just class sets.
there's also a mount, pet, tattoos, mementos, and furnishings.
oh and antiquity leads.
and with Archival Fortunes we can buy two different antiquity leads every week along with some other items like an Undaunted style page.

and soon we're supposed to get outfit styles from the Archive's bosses and merchants too.

Achievements are a measure of what we have accomplished in the game and many have rewards and titles attached to them. I like being able to track my progress and would be very upset if these were taken away.

Leveling is the same. Is strange that reaching 3600 cp after 10 years of uninterrupted gameplay gives you nothing.
I miss some vertical progression for my character.

Achievements and collecting rewards is a huge reason i've played the game this long - without them, I would've lost a lot of desire to play the game tbh.

I do agree though, they are just points, and it'd be cool if we got rewarded for reaching certain thresholds.

I wouldn't know the difference. I don't have any use for achievements in games. That's not why I play games - I play them for fun, for escape.

I have no idea why achievements are given any point value in this game; I ignore them. I pay attention to achievements that unlock things that I want and used to use some to help keep track of what different characters have done. Points don’t add anything.

Every person plays a game for various reasons. If achievements keep you playing, then the devs have scored a win....

I personally like doing achievements, but wouldn't say they are overly important for my enjoyment of the game.

Regarding the suggestion of handing out permanent benefits, I'm very much against this idea. While I think it's a nice suggestion per se, eso and it's community are simply not the audience to implement something like this.

If something like that were added, I'm sure parts of this forums would go enrage with wrong accusations of "gatekeeping" and "elitism" until the game is trivialized to an extent, that everyone can easily achieve everything without putting effort in it. We see this tendency already with titles, furnishings and other cosmetics tied to PvP and PvE endgame, so handing out gameplay-wise benefits wouldn't be working well at all.