Shortage of tanks a myth - thoughts?

[Aeyis]

Tanks will have higher standards, if you can't get over that then don't play one.

It is human nature for a person to hold a higher standard for a leader.

That's the thing tho:

Tanks are not leaders. Its not anywhere in their role description. Its the current days mindset that the groups tank is supposed to be the one in charge that is causing these issues. Not the tank role itself.
In fact its the group mentality of wanting to shift responsibility away.
Because many (most?) people do this, it causes a lot of tanks to shy away from df content (particularly the harder bits) because they dont like being forced to take responsibility for the groups success.



As far as tanking difficulty level, that depends on both the game and the content. Overall tanking tends to be fairly easygoing however.
-During bossfights youve always got the boss focused, so you can respond to boss abilities faster.
-You dont have to focus on pushing dps.
-You dont have to focus on others healthbars.

All of the ''expected from a tank'' points you list are in reality ''this is expected from our rolemodel/leader'', not the tank role.