As a player exclusively of the Eternal formats, I've never had a problem with creature creep because I feel like Wizards is trying to rectify the facts that creatures have always been easy to sweep away and strategies that don't involve attacking have always been most of the meta due to being faster. Standard is in its own little two-year bubble of course, so power creep isn't too much of a bother there, but I'm not really My CFA Visit going to worry until something better than Stifle/Dreadnought or reanimation comes up.
Then Dark Confidant comes. Then Snapcaster Mage and Stoneforge Mystic come. They are pretty much invalidatingly strong to more Limited tier creatures by the same initial analysis, and in the midst of all of this, planeswalkers have come to be. If the considerations of doing it anyway line up in such a way as they are considering format-breaker relevance in the tier of already existing super nutso ones (the type of ones mentioned), that job is fairly "artist eyeball" in its difficulty, and Standard rotates. But I see what you are saying, and I thought it too for the first large stretch of time they had been doing it. The question it entails is, do they do that giant as a 5/3? Skillful work would suggest they do NOT, ever, not at that color pip sensitivity.
Then Dark Confidant comes. Then Snapcaster Mage and Stoneforge Mystic come. They are pretty much invalidatingly strong to more Limited tier creatures by the same initial analysis, and in the midst of all of this, planeswalkers have come to be. If the considerations of doing it anyway line up in such a way as they are considering format-breaker relevance in the tier of already existing super nutso ones (the type of ones mentioned), that job is fairly "artist eyeball" in its difficulty, and Standard rotates. But I see what you are saying, and I thought it too for the first large stretch of time they had been doing it. The question it entails is, do they do that giant as a 5/3? Skillful work would suggest they do NOT, ever, not at that color pip sensitivity.