Raiding can be work sometimes, I can't deny that. But it should never feel like work, even if you're raiding seriously. I actually love that my group raids "seriously", but we're not hardcore about it. Our best O3S run ever, last night, was full of mistakes everyone was already admitting before the first spellblade (and yet it was the smoothest that ever went for all of us, lol).

We parse (well they parse, I'm a "disadvantaged" console plebian, lol), and while it's been helpful in improving, no one holds it over anyone's head, and we just laugh when things go wrong (as they so often do. Our team name is "We Are Not Okay", and we live up to it), especially since we come together and get the clears anyways, which is what really matters in the end. I say that if only to illustrate that parsers aren't The Root of All Evil and it's entirely possible to be on a progression raid team that isn't too serious or ready to brand you a heretic and villain if you aren't the absolute best ever.