Shortage of tanks a myth - thoughts?

[Noshpan]

As Kosmos has stated earlier, the shortage of tanks (and healers) is both real and imagined.

The real part is that there are a lack of players willing to step into the role as tank (and/or healer). And I count myself among those numbers, mostly due to that I have zero desire to have to deal with lippy brats. And then you have those tanks (and healers) who don't make things better. Some are there simply for the shorter queue times. Hell, one time I was in WoD, one of the tanks was acting like a complete ass, stealing threat from the MT, intentionally doing a poor job at MTing, name-calling everyone in the raid. So there's that.

I would blame the content, rather than the community.
If the content weren't designed the way it is, the community wouldn't do what it does.

Even if the content were different, certain members of the community would still act like complete douche-canoes. Though I do agree that the Marauder/Warrior/Gladiator/Paladin quests haven't done a good job teaching the player how to tank.