What the heck is going on with this patch?

[Jinko]

Oh man you're right. I totally didn't see that coming. Oh wait...

I suppose a lot of people are used to the way Blizzard makes its content free standing with every patch, its no mystery there are a lot of ex WoW players playing this game.

It makes sense for it to be locked behind progression, but at the same time it is locking out a lot of people from new content.

WoW does do something similar, you are requried to complete the previous raid before attempting the next one but only through the LFR finder, if you make a premade you can do whatever you like as long as your ilvl is high enough.