So the level reqs are in huh...
Ya know the biggest problem I have with your explanation cosmik is this. How the heck can you possibly in good concience expect anyone to buy your expansion when you can't get the original game you made to work right!?!?!?!?!
You gotta be kidding me. That is the most absurd thing I have ever read. And if you really believe what you typed all I can say is seek professional counsel.
If my class fixing pistol nanos (i'm an adventurer) has a level req then every other classes nanos had better have the same reqs. What I mean is that Brutal thug better have the same psy mod sense im reqs as ballad of pistollero and the same level req. Anything other than this is utter crap. Now since I know this won't happen your only other course of action is to either remove the level caps from the new nanos so you are not penalizing 3 classes/professions with reqs not shared by all other professions/classes or delete the classes in question and refund all the ip to the players playing them and let them start in the character creation area and make a new char with all the stored IP they now have.
All I can say is I have never been so disappointed at a decision made by a game dev in my life. The explanation is complete and utter hogwash.
OK Cosmik, one question...
OK Cosmik, if you want a question for the devs/designers to answer, here it is :)
Assuming my interpretation is correct, and these nanos have lower skill requirements than they would otherwise have (and the level requirement is to balance this) due to the effects Shadowlands will have - When Shadowlands is released, will players of the expansion find that these nanos will change to have their original intended skill requirements and QL, and as a result loose the level limit - in effect there will be two versions of the same nano, one for non-expansion plaers and one for expansion players?
(And I agree with others, none of this explains the 'leet friends' line... get them to explain that if they can...)
[EDIT - there are some good posts here, such as Bionitrous who can generally be relied on to post sense and reason, get the designers to read some of this stuff and provide more information, for now the answer is half baked.]