I think ultimately this content NEEDS to happen this way. As a member of successful statics I can tell you I would never had succeeded without a large raiding population. Statics are exclusive clubs that once in a while need to purge members that don't conform or are unable to do so for what ever reason. You can't do that well if the raids scare off the player base in mass which Gordias and a6s did. And Putting up with raids that force large segments of the population to server transfer isn't good either.

Its going to take some time maybe even another raid cycle for the raid community to recover from the brutal difficulties of Gordias and a6s.

Only after the raiding community gets back on its feet that maybe we can up the difficulty on raids.

As for normal mode... difficulty is right where it needs to be.