Is it me or has the community gotten worse...

[Seraphor]

People keep shunning the tools that allow them to improve. ACT? No, that's against the rules (even though World first runners clearly show overlays on stream and are fine). Balance Discord? No, it's full of toxic elitist raiders. Suggestions? No, you don't pay my sub.

People have no interest in improvement, just their feelings and keeping doing what they do without anyone telling them they're not helping the group.

And again, if everyone had passable performance, we wouldn't be having this topic in the first place. We wouldn't be having trap parties for EX. We wouldn't be having Savage PUG parties with one or two people wiping the rest of the group consistently. We wouldn't be having wipes on Titania Normal of all things. We wouldn't have people asking for Shinryu to be nerfed. We wouldn't have people saying playing as Y'shtola with only 4 buttons is too hard.
You seem to forget that, if I complete the content quickly, so does everyone else. It's a win win for everyone. But feefees and virtue signaling culture is what matters nowadays. We got to the point where SE needs to do the handholding themselves, because people aren't capable of doing anything independently.

You didn’t read what I said did you?

I said IF they don’t improve, IF they don’t accept help, IF they refuse to learn.

You can’t know these things unless you give them a chance first.
One wipe = kick, is not giving them a chance.

If you don’t have the patience to give people a chance, just admit it, instead of pretending you’re some paragon of teamwork.

To instead come from a default position of “nobody ever wants to learn or improve, and I won’t give anyone a chance to do so anyway” is the peak of cynicism and "everyone must meet my standards before they encounter me" is elitism.

People learn in different ways, ACT isn't available to everyone, and you can look up and learn good rotations without needing to set foot in the Balance Discord.