When did anyone ever start assuming it was going to be anything but duty finder centric? They mentioned duty finder repeatedly ever since they first spoke about it, and said its not like Coil. I could tell from the beginning that something like this was going to go on, especially since they had originally intended it as pathed content before coil. You use DF for everything else but Chimera, Hydra, etc.

People are massively over reacting to this. Most FC's I am aware of could not even muster 24 whole people for such an event.

No choice was taken from you, it was never stated to begin with, and it should have been assumed you would use DF the entire time.