The general player base needs to improve

[Shurrikhan]

I apologize if you take offense but I'm simply stating that not everyone will be on par with players who have had more time to master their classes. Sprouts can reach SB content fairly quickly and we have jump potions now. its to be expected to have a level of play gap. I'm not saying people shouldn't improve. I'm saying they shouldn't improve at your pace

Why shouldn't we expect people to learn their levels x to y skills over the process of reaching y+1? They have the whole level to read the tooltip and figure out how best to fit it in, with only at most a small part of their overall strategy needing to be reconsidered beyond what's been done across all previous levels.

I don't expect everyone to do so on their own, but there are also a plethora of resources available to stimulate and spot-check improvement, especially for PC players.

[Gallus]

Playerbase is fine. People have the right to have their own goals in the game and to be more or less ambitious, you are nobody to judge at what level each individual should aim to play. The "stop wasting my time" can only be applied to PFs or premade parties, but there you have an easy solution which is booting the person who is dragging out the rest of the party. In blind content you should expect anything, people are just different and play the game for different reasons. I'm a bit tired of the whole "people refuse to learn" garbage when most of the times it's more about a temperamental player that goes nuts when a DF party doesn't clear an EX primal on their first try. Learn to deal with the diversity of this community rather than mindlessly banging your head trying to change peoples' aspirations and goals, that's not in your hands and it shouldn't be.