It feels like a job, everything is a chore, I have to meet quota's for the week otherwise ill fall behind. I've had to run weeping city about 20 times this week just to get gear for this week, which I still haven't got yet.
This right here is kind of my point.

I honestly don't think the developers ever intended for players to want to run the same piece of content 20 times per week. I think they made it more for people like me who usually just do it once or twice per week. And if I don't get a piece of gear from it, well /shrug. I cap lores anyway, so gear drops from 24-man raids are essentially just bonuses.

So this game clearly needs some new types of content that can make players like you happy. But SE should spend its resources on content that's accessible by people who don't have time to commit to statics -- that way, most of the game's playerbase would be happy! And I really believe that's what the Diadem was intended to do, except SE just completely dropped the ball.