Motivation for raiding

[TallonOverworld]

It's true that a high percentage of players is not raiding but not necessarily due to the lack of skill. Personally, i find raiding to be extremely stressful from my small experience. Also, the gear is indeed the best in terms of stats but why should i bother with raiding when i can get second best just by waiting a few weeks with tomes? Last week i got my shire weapon and finished shire armor. In 3.5 i will get each piece to i270 and even though it will take some time, im more than fine with that not to mention that my gear will be comparable to the raid gear in terms of basic stats which is all i want in the first place.
So even if SE decides to raise the gap between tome gear and raid gear it will end up badly since the vast majority of people that dont raid will complain about it and i don't believe they are willing to satisfy the needs of the few to the needs of the many, marketing thinking always