square please challenge us a little

[Khalithar]

This is actually faulty logic (even if it is sound), simply due to prior experience. In WoW, with Cataclysm, the devs tried to bring back a need to slow down runs by requiring things like CC for most parties. In other words, a return to old school gameplay.

I loved Cataclysm for this reason. It required everyone to step up compared to the difficulty from Wotlk and a lot of players that couldn't hack it were given a wake up. From there the players I knew either got better and stepped up or they quit running the high level content. Of course, for those of us that raided at that time, once we got the raid gear we went back to speedrunning since once you overgeared them the harder dungeons were a joke. The dungeons were only difficult the first time through, eventually we just overpowered the mobs and brute forced most mechanics without issue.

Edit: Although at the time I basically stopped pugging. I only ran the dungeons with raid geared friends from my raiding guild or their alts, i.e. people I gamed with all the time (synergy and knowing how to work together is definitely a thing), knew how to play their role at the raid level, and had the really good gear.