It was easier dealing with jerks and AFKers without any recourse (ie being helpless to deal with them)... than to deal with people who abuse it. This system has seen almost nothing but abuse since it's inception. I'd rather have no recourse than to have the recourse be abused, constantly.

Take, for example, a Stone Vigil HM run I was just on. 3 people in the same guild, first-timers. I take the time to explain boss and trash mechanics, we die once on the turtle, no big whoop, I explain that cannons should shoot the Aevis off other players, we kill it. I explain the caster guys can only be stunned out of becoming a dragon, I warn of a wyvern ambush area, etc.

We die on the last trash set because A) The WAR and DRG can't stun the caster, and mostly B) Said WAR also let the 2 dragons maul the healer. I jokingly comment that Overpower and Flash typically prevent that. "Oh well, he's a dragon now" was the extent of my sarcasm before being vote kicked.