...Seriously?

The stated purpose of the family system was for Maplers to band together and benefit from each other - Not for players to create rep mules that generate abnormal levels of rep that they may they use to gain benefits over players who are using the system in was it's normal, intended fashion - Remaining in a stable family unit together for extended periods.

How would it be an advantage? Anyone could have made new characters and farmed rep.

But, it still makes no sense for people to compare this to a glitch. There was no malfunction in the system.

By Nexon's standards it was abuse of a feature to create masses of easily leveled newbies, chain them together to create an infinite supply of rep and then bring them into high level parties and sell their services.

Rather than punish everyone for it, they made the process itself prohibitive so that it encourages the usage they intended/desired, not what it had been coopted to become.

Why didn't they just make families available only to level 70+ then? Now you can't even switch families to teleport to someone (I have no idea how some people call this abuse, considering it isn't even farming). This change doesn't even prevent rep farming; I made a new rep mule yesterday, with only minor problems. This definitely hurts people who don't farm rep more than it does those who DO farm it. What if your family members quit? Then you lose rep to leave. People who farm rep would be much less concerned about that loss.