I am new to vintage, and, as expected, I started with the broken decks with all the restricted cards. The most exciting thing for me is to combo out and generate storm in the hundreds to kill on turn 1. To get these high moments, I also accepted that there will be games where I literally cast 0 spells and die with no land in play. Recently, I have acquired my workshops and started to learn how to play shop decks on MTGO. It requires an almost completely new way to think about the format and the value of cards in opponents' deck. I really enjoy this learning process and would be sad if the format changes so rapidly that a match up became obsolete before I even completely understood it. I moved away from standard to eternal formats because the stability, the format is a long way from stale to me. I endorse Steve's idea that the DCI should use data-based criteria with regard to restrictions and not favor vocal players' complains on VSL. As long as the criteria for a card to be restricted is clearly stated and enforced, I would not complain even if my newly acquired workshops are restricted and lost significant value.
