Hoo boy, just come back to this thread after few days and it turns into 'elitism vs casualism'. Well anyway...
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... however I don't believe that expecting a level 80 player to know what a stack marker is wrong, that being met with hostility for offering advice to someone who repeatedly fails mechanics is somehow ok or even accepted, that being fed up and speaking out about that subset of the playerbase somehow puts you in the wrong.

I used to really enjoy helping out new players back during ARR and HW, now I rarely even bother as it hardly seems worth the time to try.
While I strongly agree with your stance here, sometimes there's just nothing better we can do but to stay silent because how differently SE views 'harassment'-cases compared to us lots. It is ingrained in their culture that being very direct are often seen as being rude. They would prefer to just back off from the scene without expressing their discomfort too obviously. This is why i.e. savage DF actually works in JP DC (works, as in letting the queue pops). Whether the run is a success or not is another different story; but when things go awry, all they say will be something like "Ah, I don't think this duty can be finished with this party... let's just leave and try another time." before voting to disband and call it a day. Rather than telling people upfront, they would rather leave players having some 'self reflection' moments to find their mistakes.

NA DC (Idk about EU) obviously comes with different culture ingrained in their mind so ... *BAM*, surprise
Unless SE decides to take account of this difference, we're pretty much stuck to what we have right now (and have to deal with sheer amount of passive aggressiveness when things goes south, if any at all.)