Quote Originally Posted by AziraSyuren View Post
I don't know, every time I think of how bad times seem now, I just think about how a six month content drought with the worst, most unhealthy raid tier in this game's history was followed up by two pieces of content that were universally reviled (the Diadem and 3.1 relic grind) and one that was reviled by everyone who didn't like mindlessly grinding (PoTD) and I wonder if it's even nearly as bad. People who think it's even comparable are either misremembering or weren't around. And while I don't want to sound like some boomer who's all "your problems don't matter because mine were worse LOL" (let's be real, I probably have already), I take a little issue with people thinking that which is par for the course is the sign of some downward trend.

It's really not. A string of awful decisions followed by a massive damage control patch or two is just this game's MO.
Maybe you're a smarter frog? I've been personally ranting about it since the tail end of StB and I still get a bit starry eyed over HW, as naive as that may be. So sadly, I think you and I agree so much that we simply don't have insight on what the other camp believes. I've tried feeding my own beliefs on why this is suddenly massive, but ultimately they're also guesses. I just know as much as you do and, apparently, am about as frustrated too.