The thing is that I like stance dancing. A lot. But in my post I also said that it has become completely braindead and I explain why. We don't stance dance anymore, we just go all-out DPS stance all the time because our defensive CDs and healers' oGCDs are far enough to survive everything without having to sacrifice DPS. We just activate tanking stance in two scenarios : 1. When we are still learning brand-new raid tier fights, which is only for a short time before we start optimizing DPS again, 2. When people start fucking up mechanics and healers need some extra safety. This wasn't the case in ARR because we had fewer defensive tools and healers had less powerful oGCD heals.

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2) delete tank stance and rename dps stance to tank stance and add a weaker threat modifier on top of a damage taken reduction to it. this suggestion is terrible because in reality low-skill and low-gear tanks use tank stance a lot to compensate. it also gives up on the idea of ever having stance dancing again, which is an incredibly satisfying mechanic for tanks.
I made this suggestion with the intent of making the current DPS-stance tank gameplay the default gameplay for both stances, thus reducing the aggro generation and increasing incoming damage so that our tank duties are still a bit challenging while in tanking stance, unlike how it is right now (tanking stance is basically easy mode). The only part where I agree with you here is about low-skill tanks. Low-gear doesn't matter unless they are violently undergeared (like a level 69 tank still wearing level 60 idyllshire gear, and in that case just put an ilvl restriction to levelling dungeons too.). Low-skill tanks who are constantly in tanking stance as of right now would have a hard time adjusting to my suggestion because it's basically just like being in DPS stance all the time, but I think that tanking shouldn't be such a braindead task; you have 69 levels to learn how to use your mitigation skills and manage aggro properly, but the tanking stance is the exact reason why we see level 70 tanks who never use any CD. My suggestion would force them to learn how to be a good tank, since they'd have to press buttons to mitigate damage instead of just sitting in tanking stance all the time. I don't think that it's a bad thing. It would not reduce the population of people who actually main tanks because they enjoy the tanking duty in MMOs, it might just reduce the amount of lazy players who just occasionally play a tank as their second or third job just to proc queues faster.

I also said this towards the end of my original post :

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That way, they could also focus on adding complexity to how tanks play by other means without having to bother with the different stances.
It would require an expansion, but I think that they can totally bring an interesting amount of complexity to the tanks with other means. Stance-dancing is not the only way, and as I said numerous times before and in my original post as well, right now it's only a shadow of what it used to be anyway. It's no longer as interesting as it was. Tanks and healers are too powerful defensively.