If RPG Maker had stayed in it's 2k/2k3 form, maybe been updated but not to include scripting - just events, do you think you would still be using it?
I used 2k for a while before XP came around. Sometimes I try using it again, fall in love with it, but get annoyed at how it's not XP, and end up back in RMXP again. But I don't get the same feeling with VX and VXace, I'm happy to stick with XP, which makes me think scripting was the only thing really "wrong" with the older editors.
Do you think you'd even stick around with the RM community if you'd never found scripting?