User blog comment:Ralok/The Search Changes/@comment-4674838-20120512054422

Just to be clear, *you* can still go directly to pages if you want. Use the search go button js. Or, use your address bar. As an experienced user, this update doesn't really affect you personally. You could very easily use either of those 2 methods and you're straight back to going directly to pages. Wikia also said they're adding this option into Special:Preferences as well, so individual users will still have the 'Go' functionality available.

What you're talking about is the philosophy of how search should behave for newer users and anons. If you want to argue "for the masses", this is how I would lay it out: Which of these gets more traffic (and hence has more satisfied users)? Obviously the search engines. Hence, more people in the world are happy with search, not go. Not only that, but Wikia gets to put ads on Special:Search and collect search data. So it's a win-win situation, statistically speaking.
 * On 1 hand, you have sites that run MediaWiki software or otherwise have searches that take you directly to pages, e.g. Wikipedia.
 * On the other hand, you have google, bing, yahoo, etc.