Haha, yeah those runs that you have to laugh instead of crying. Had a Paradigm's run recently where the two tanks were sprouts and I dunno if they were trolling or they just really like my group's tank but they stuck to him like butter on the second boss. So of course the bosses stayed shielded and we kinda couldn't do anything. And we tried to help them in alliance chat. So we just started memeing and being silly because it kept happening and it just made the fight drag on and on so we had to go silly as a defense. They did eventually get it, so I think they were just trying to be good tanks and follow the expert and missed the chat.

I think the thing with content with a current content shelf date can't be laid entirely at the feel of the developers, though. Eureka and Bozja participation petered out because they put rewards in there, people got those rewards, and then noped out. Some of the same people who complain things aren't hard enough, but then won't participate in keeping the content they say they prefer alive unless SE is constantly shoving new and different carrots under their noses. SE does fail to future proof some things and it's ridiculous we have to turn to outside sources, but things like Baldesion Arsenal Discords are proof that those who really want the content will use it and keep it alive and keep engaging with it and those who just want to use the content will use it and abandon it then complain they have nothing challenging to do.