Are you happy with the current raiding structure in this game?

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Do others have a weekly lockout? Not a facetious question; I'm honestly curious.

Yes, they do. A few do not, but they are less common.

This is very misguided. First, timers and lockouts have been a more recent development. Lockouts and timers have their purpose, but there should be no reason for content to be designed around them. Resorting to these should be a last resort. In EQ and older MMOs, I could raid and run content as much as I wanted, and believe it or not, while gear was a motivation to run these, the true fun was in the socialization and camaraderie.

The game already has limiting mechanics (Allowances) in place and why they don't use one single mechanic as opposed to all sorts of timers and lockouts is beyond me.

Define Recent. EQ had lockouts on some types of content as well. Not to mention, no lockouts cannot work the same way and causes other problems. Problems that people here would whine about just as much.