Anet: A question about the future focus of PvE

Simply: is it your intention for the focus of PvE to be character development or account development?

I don't want this to turn into an argument thread on the subject, there's already one of those in Sardelac, but I would like to understand the devs intent with respect to this game. Historically PvE has been about character development and PvP about account development. There seems to be growing outcry on the part of veteran players (those that have played through the games many times) to allow new characters to access content they feel they've "unlocked" like map locations and elite skills. I wouldn't tend ot take that kind of thing very seriously but for the change to skill vending in March of last year, when it became possible to buy any skill at a vendor that you'd unlocked with any previous character. That change, apparently made at the popular request of the community, was definitely a move in the direction of account development in PvE. No clear gesture has been made in that direction since, but I'm curious what Anet is and is not considering in regard to future changes of this nature to PvE.

Thanks for you time,
Vin