and thus you've hit the nail on the head, at least in terms of what i personally have issues with in regards to raiding
Schedules
8 people

Neither of these are a viability for me or my friends, nor have been for some time. and there isnt 8 of us consistently playing, and we have hard time working with randoms due to how we work as a unit.

our server is small, and NA; we are all EU (we've been on here since ARR launch so hence why not an EU server) so our times dont match up with others on the server. plus we have friends and dont want to leave + loose everything we have, so its just us.
and at best, we can get a group of 6 together reliably
realistically its 4.

so we only have half the required numbers, our times dont sync with outside people, and we generally cant commit daily practise etc [jobs, schools etc]

so a true "Mid-teir" style raid [imo of mid-teir] would be amazing. 4, maybe up to 6 people, difficulty similar to the first savage turn at most, maybe a tad more who knows.

i can dream