SE is definitely not the first to build a super boss, but haters gonna hate and the big franchise SE got the dirtiest and biggest publicity for it. There are people who would tell tall tells of Everquest and needing to assemble 500 people just to kill one thing.

This is definitely a two way street. Decisions were made on both sides and sadly SE took the blame and incorporated ways to deter ridiculousness.

tl;dr parsers can be awesome to have, people's decisions not always so awesome.