I agree my post's biggest flaw is generalizing this into three categories. That was incredibly stupid.

If some people want to throw me into a category of casual; then so be it. I play probably 8 hours a week. If I told someone who does not play video-games that I play video-games 8 hours a week they would think I'm an addict. It's all going to be opinionated.

In RL land I'm a married attorney who recently had a kid. Time is important thus I analyze I how spend it. During 2.0 I'd say Titan / T1 / T2 was the pinnacle of intermediate content. I felt rewarded for that extra time I played to clear those runs. Since 2.2 - I feel that I could half the amount of time I play and practically be at the same place two patches later. In my opinion, the extreme primals of 2.3 were the equivalent to what Titan HM and T1 / T2 were at 2.0 (this is what I deem intermediate content). Unlike 2.0, the 2.3 intermediate content rewarded nothing additional to the casual content.

Basically I feel that I could have played half the amount of time (not done the extreme primal runs and not worked towards a relic) and been practically at the same place. To those saying that I'm a casual because I didn't finish T9 before 2.4 - I'd like to ask what you think the definition of a casual player is? Isn't Coil by definition "hardcore" content?