People who blindly go "UMG EE SHOULD BE REMOVED THIS INSTANT ARGH PERIOD." annoy me but I can 100% see where the anti EE arguments are coming from.
Following in yogscastlana's steps on getting started I spent ages mining and getting resources, then he starts going into EE. I go from routing the shit of my quarry into an energy condenser and still having a huge challenge getting things to just flying around summoning shit from nothing and being totally fucking bored.
Still, their are many aspects that people choose to ignore in favour of hating it. It is so unbelievably useful to just put your shit into a chest and slowly have it converted to diamonds. While it may be "magic" I see lots of factory's that just need you to insert high EMC value things and then the factory converts it into the required items. Also the flying ring is unbelievably useful, The jetpack is a piece of shit and you cant deny it. Nothing beats free flying. I like where it comes from and I really do like it, of coarse until one day while opening the door to my tree house with my red matter axe then the thing goes "OH YOU WANT ME TO CHOP THIS DOWN DO YOU? MY PLEASURE" and fucking ruins everything. Its handy to have a right click take that tree down button but using it on the forest clears like 2 or 3 chunks of tree and it just needs a little rebalance.
Some aspects (like the previous) are ridiculous and need some form of nerf or some incentive to keep playing after reaching endgame. It reminds me of the argument that sparked after crafting table III's removal. Basicly in that argument all I saw was "Its pretty damn handy" "ITS TOO HANDY WE DON'T WORK HARD ENOUGH GASHWEDGWHD". The thing is no matter what you use its designed to make you work less hard. Arguments that EE make the game easier are pretty stupid compared to the fact EVERY SINGLE MOD IN TEKKIT IS DESIGNED TO MAKE SOME ASPECT OF THE GAME EASIER.
If the people who argue for harder gameplay are looking for harder gameplay so much, newsflash, the base game is a lot fucking harder then tekkit. No shortcuts, every single diamond is a diamond you mined. No way to make that cobblestone useful, that shit is and will always be cobblestone. No way to double your ore outcome, no way to remove the need for coal, no way to set something up to mine for you and then idle. Wanna make a computer? Well start building, because your building that shit piece by piece with the limited vanilla redstone. No redwire, you gotta find a way to make that dust climb up that wall, no just placing it on the wall. No magical add redstone to stone to make a computer. No magical add glass to stone to make a monitor, you make every single individual meter square pixel of that screen.
If we learned to play our own style and stop judging people for taking the easier route we would have a lot more fun. Maybe if we even tried a different style we can see where other people are coming from. But if your arguing your route is the best and most fun when its the only route you have used, your gonna have a bad time.