Venting - Skill Checks and Role Playing vs Roll Playing

[PersonMan]

Maybe I am just too old school to get used to this, but it is just darn aggravating what Skill Checks can do. They take all the mystery, excite

It's a playstyle issue, plain and simple. You dislike the PCs having lots of knowledge, other people probably hate playing games where they just sort of stumble around in the dark until the DM lets them gain enough knowledge to continue (to put it in a way biased in that direction, to give you an idea of their view).