Progression locks are bad

[Callinon]

If your group

Until very recently I didn't have one of those.

And social skills have absolutely nothing to do with the content being un-puggable.

Again (and again and again since people aren't reading), I'm not asking for the content to be made easier. It's fine that it's hard. It's even good that it's hard. But locking off the content after it is bad. All the social skills in the world won't change the fact that I didn't attack this encounter when it was current, and so now finding a group that is both capable of clearing it AND will take someone who never has is extremely difficult and it has nothing to do with social skills.