Ah, but there is a purpose to this thread. Several actually.
First, I'm a crippled geek with nothing to do but camp the forums and watch for people to reply to my thread in order to stroke my own ego while my GF is at school.
Second, I wait for like minded players on my server to post so I can recruit them into my super elite LS that is so awesome we go out and sneeze on Ura and watch her die (Chuck Norris is in our LS, btw.)
Thirdly, I'm genuinely interested in why people -don't- play "hard mode" when it is available, and if this thread leads to some illumination on that subject and sparks some debate - which it has started to do - then I understand another point of view and maybe (rose colored glasses again) SE will see the issue in a new light as well.
In short, its just an ego stroke for me. Honestly. I swear.