DPS is the job of DPS.

[Squintina]

They weren't told "this is your box; squat in it," by the design or the community, so even in progression raids there was just one rule -- do whatever's most effective, given the current and upcoming condition of the group.

Well yeah but wasn't that my point? That there's something wrong with this community to be so focused on such things (to the point that it even occasionally shows up in lower-level dungeons)?