Too much dancing

[Simaril]

Sorry, but I'm not really a fan of any battle where the strategy for my portion is "Come in at 50%, press 1 until boss dies."

Simple answer: encounters focused on keep in place and pressing 111111121111121111114 are helluva much more boring.

Part of what you're missing there, is that it really, really, really sucked if you wiped, and it took a lot of time and effort and socialization to put a raid together.
In titan HM some groups just auto attack for phase 1 until LB bar is half full... similar concept...

Now you que up in DF, you don't even need to say hello, you could literally turn your chat window off, and if you wipe you just try again 10 seconds later. This wonderful conveniece has come at the cost of the need to actually find decent people, follow precise instructions, and build relationships.

And again, I'm really not sure I understand why you want to play a dancing game??? Yes, the game needs some interesting mechanics... but not the same one over and over and over again. So while standing and pushing a button weren't hard, getting it set up was hard, and execution HAD TO BE perfect. Also, trash was a major issue. Trash could respawn anytime, so you almost needed a group to handle trash that continued to respawn, while the main party dealt with the boss... one of the next bosses actually ran away... Again, I'm ot saying I want to go back and play MMOs from 1999, but I am saying they were challanging, engaging, and fun... while newer games have removed old challanges to replace them with dancing.

There was another boss in a later x-pac that during a certain phase if anyone used any magic spell on the boss, it full cured... which caused many many wipes so yes; NOT hitting a button can be challanging too. And finding reliable people amd the experience entirely more do-able, and enjoyable.