DPS is the job of DPS.

[Squintina]

This was a hot topic 3 years ago before I left and is still now.

I never remembered being this bad in a certain other game.

...and before someone says something like "those other games made tanks/heal jobs more integral". That might be true, but at some point as people get stronger, everything becomes a little less necessary. I remember having to DPS as heals while doing ICC10/25 in WoW as we all got stronger, and even one boss where I could DPS the entire time while the other healer would heal every 10 seconds and DPS the rest of the time, and no one made a stink either way (even though literally everyone had parser addons), same with choosing between 2 tanks that could both hold aggro and both knew the fights and picking the one that had the higher dps and telling the other one he could only join on his DPS spec because his tank spec didn't do enough deeps - answer was usually "ok, one sec".

When a person like me, who found WoW raids to be extremely toxic, can remember a time it which it seemed less toxic than what's shown in this game (which is usually friendlier when it comes to quests, helping, and other non-instanced content), you know this community's got a problem - too bad I don't have a solution other than just getting over it from both sides :/

And I certainly never saw that attitude in pug dungeons ever, but holy carp it's in this game even in leveling dungeons.
I don't understand either side - why people care so much as long as they don't wipe, nor why others enjoy having time doing nothing when content gets easy.