If you are not tackling harder content there is no real reason to have gear for harder content outside glamour and because you simply want it for no other reason than to have it.

If you want it that bad you are going to work for it. And raiding is a different kind of grind in and of itself, just not one you can generally watch Netflix during as you can with lolexpert roulette. You need to give incentive to raid and since Alex is horrid when it comes to story, music or anything vaguely resembling something interesting, gear is all that's left.

If they offer the same level or kind of gear from doing laughably simple content for 15 minutes a day a few times a week endgame raiding would be dead on arrival.