You make a really good point when you mention catering for the 1% who want it super hard, but then who then cheese the fight anyway. Do they really want it as hard as they pretend they do? Hmm.

inb4 euphemism

I think SE's efforts in raiding should be towards adding more bosses, or a different raid structure, and maintaining the difficulty of T9's sort of standard, rather than all this worrying of is too hard or too easy.