Difficulty format for Normal and Savage will remain in 4.0

[thegreatonemal]

Best part you said is when everyone is treated special, then no one is special. This is absolutely true. If you are not willing to put the effort and time that more dedicated raiders do, then you don't deserve the same rewards. Even in SCoB and FCoB when I hadn't beaten T9 and T13, I saw the awesome gear and weapons that dropped from that turn and felt properly motivated to get it down. Felt really good beating Bahamut the first time and both my weapon and body piece dropped at the same time.

Gear might have been the factor for you but most of the gear out of those raids is ugly and is hardly used by anyone nowadays. so Cool unique looking gear might have been a factor for you and whats got you into raiding but its not like that for everyone.
the problems that raiding in this game faces is more community inflicted than design choice inflicted.