I like the smaller groups as well...but I HATE....HATE that is MUST BE 8 people.

This is horribly crippling to anyone who has, or has group members who have, variable schedules or unforeseen conflicts or like...friends in real life.

It is exceedingly difficult to make reasonable progress on content when one person having to go to a family barbeque can screw your entire night because the PUG you got was horrible, and then his replacement couldn't cut it either.

7-9 player content or 20-28 player content would be really cool. The advantage to having more people would be that you have an easier time, but less of a chance at loot; vice versa.

For the record I love 40 man raids because you can have 6 people not show up and everything is fine lol.