Isnt this a common thing though? When you play game and you criticise that game, the players who love the game will defend it. Its like going to a Trump rally and criticising Trump infront of his followers, how do you think they are going to respond? I am not saying that how they respond is a good thing, people should be open to others opinion and be civil about it, but this is a very common behavior.

About raids becoming easier, around 5% of this community is a active raider and among this same group not everyone has already cleared the current raids. I can understand SE if they want to make it easier and more accessible. SE spends alot of money to make these raids and they want it to be worth their time and money, hence they make it more accessible for other players.

Afcourse this does not excuse players being rude to you, in a weird way this is good news for you, do you realy want to play with close minded individuals as the ones that were in your LS?