Your friends weren't cut out for raiding then, 3 hours a day 3-4 days a week is what midcore raiding is. My group did that, we cleared A6S, we did it for 2 months and cleared A3S, for a month and cleared A4S. This stuff isn't meant to come easily, you already have NM and Primals for that kind of play. A6S is the hardest pre A8S fight, of course it's going to take a few weeks, it's like the community forgot T7 even happened.
