You cannot be serious that such a trivial thing as making
the quit command _less_ likely of losing your gear would
actually cause such complaints?

You guys have no idea about the amount of complaints and
whines we get from people (newbies, highbies and drunkards
alike) who have "magically lost their stuff due to a bug"
and who demand restores, only to figure out that they did
indeed quit instead of going ld with all their stuff on.

I think "quit" is needed as especially for new players it
is easy to get lost in new areas, some which may be non-
summon and having the ability to get back to a familiar
location (without having to wait for boot) enables the new
player to continue playing right away. The other option
can easily be that he/she logs off and goes to play somewhere
else.

++ Gore