How is ilvl an issue while leveling?

[LineageRazor]

I'm sorry if I misunderstand - if you aren't defending these points as legitimate reasons to not be up-to-date on your gear then excuse my post.

Yes, you misunderstood; I'm not defending the practice, just making an observation.

I will note, though, that the moment you mentioned Googling something, you're already going WELL beyond the level of effort that many players are willing to put into this game. Players ARE lazy, and many refuse to do "homework" of any kind, at least when it comes to "faceroll easy content" (which, ironically, loses its faceroll status precisely because they fail to do that minimum amount of research).