Is anyone else bothered by the lack of incentive for mediocre players to improve?

[Alcyon1]

I am beginning to believe the primary complaint of the people who hate WoW is that they believe that they are god's gift to MMOs and how dare anyone tell them to go to h3ll or ignore them. Does it bruise your ego that I can outright ignore people like you and still have a good time?

I don't like WOW because WOW killed the genre. Now, you cannot "fail" your char (in some games, you had to put your stats yourself without any possible reset, same goes for your skill tree), levelling was mostly grinding, but you had to build a decent char and do it with a group. Now, a "raid" is X people. Not X-1 or X+1, but X. In some games, crafting was a REAL job, and levelling it was hard (or expensive) but rewarding. Geez. I could continue for a week. I don't dislike the "new" MMO's, I just dislike Blizzard for killing a genre.