I personally did not forget, no, however the fact you bring this up brings another question to the table. Did you forget how many buffers and debuffers you needed to beat NMs like Tojil before anyone fully geared in Adoulin stuff? Last I knew back when we were doing that you had 18 people in the party and some of which were jobs like RDM for Dia III and Gravity II to lower EVA, or GEO for the same kinda thing, lower EVA, lower DEF, then you had BRD & COR swaps for the same kinda thing, Acc+ and Atk+ and so on. It's not as though back then it was all sunshine and rainbows and you just were so badass you could beat it without these buffs and pulled through, no, not even close. Back then you needed a ton of buffs and debuffs to stand a chance at even hitting, let alone hurting, let alone killing the NMs. So to bring up that up right now seems kinda pointless, you're setting two very completely different sets of circumstances up and saying that because A is possible, B is equally as possible.
On a general basis I would agree with that idea, the fact that players who can't beat content shouldn't be allowed to get the drops. That being said you again forgot something, when 18 people did it, it was much easier to kill Tojil, it was much easier in general to kill any of the NMs and walk away with a win. Back when you had 18 people Alliances and no 6-man option people shouted a ton and people without the win had a chance to get it. Fast forward to today and you find no shout groups for Plasm at all really, instead you find small closed in groups of people doing 6 man runs like the ones Saevel mentioned and that's it. Why take extras when you don't need to?If I find the time I'll have a friend post a video of our run. If "average players" can't beat this content then they shouldn't be allowed to get the drops.
The thing is that it all goes back to being able to 6-man the content without the win now because no one does it with an alliance, and while you can say that people shouldn't get the gear if they can't beat the content, I think the odds are stacked against those without the wins in a massive way.
Again with the aforementioned lack of ability to use the english language properly and insinuations of things which have already been proven untrue.You should be content with lower tier gear, not force SE to dumb the content down so you idiots can complete it. I honestly don't care for this discussion anymore either, SE will do as it sees fit and I'm glad they haven't totally caved in to terribad players.