What is this? What can be made from it?

No, MEE wasn't even mentioned during that time. People were pretty much in an uproar being against additional options. Then shortly after nexon said "ok we won't add it because you guys dun want it" people started questioning the decision.

As I recall, most of the complaints about additional options started rolling in when those screenshots of MEE'd items starting popping up, I blame the negative reaction towards additional options on some confusion between the two and the mistaken belief that additional options added MEE style stats.

I would like additional options on my gear, but I play multiple characters so most of my gear is tradable. Almost all my items are self made and cubed. It took a very long to make, so I don't want to make multiples of a equip because it would lose trade ability when the flame is applied. Having to do so to keep up with everyone, damage wise, is just punishing players that like to play multiple characters. Maybe nerf some of the effects of additional options, and keep them tradable would be better. I could only hope for that :/

If you care about tradeability, you should just find new equips with the additional options you want and use those, sell your old gear, recube, rescroll, whatever. Newly dropped equips also have additional options, but, unless they're 140+, they remain fully tradeable. You don't have to make multiple sets of equips, the only things that have scissor counts imposed on them are 140+ items and things you use flames on, which you don't have to use. It might take a while, but it's not as bad as you make it out to be.