Something should be done for players that love a challenge in Alliance Raids.

[Avoidy]

That's basically what BA, CLL, Dalriada and DR were. DR even has a Savage version.

True, but all of those are gated behind grindy stuff that lots of people don't even do. And for the harder ones like BA/DRS, you're expected to use outside resources like discord to even get into a group.
It'd be nice if, much like EX/Savage content for other things, you could simply unlock retweaked/harder versions of existing alliance raid content and then do it without trudging through like 60 hours of FATE grinds or whatever.

There is also the minimum item level option. When I did ARR alliance raids with that setting, we were able to tackle it in discord like high-end content and the mechanics were actually that punishing and needed us to tank swap because of lack of cooldowns.

Love doing these, but they're hard to put together since you need to basically create a full group of 24 in the partyfinder to make it happen and most people see 0 reason to join up for that outside of niche groups.