Yeah, I stick to statics these days. I haven't PUG'd anything since Sigmascape.

I hit my limit for PUGing when I cleared Sigmascape 3 Savage in a PUG slightly before my statics at the time.

The reason I stopped PUGing after that was that I'd PUG'd a ton before it, and it was always the same story. Folks lying about prog or people on alts who think they're hot shit.

The PUG I was in that cleared it featured two tanks who were on alts, alts they hadn't bothered to really minimally gear for Savage. We had... oh... 4 or so 0.5~2% wipes on O7S in that PUG as a "first time" clear group.

At the time, ya know, crafted gear was like i350. Byakko weapons were i355. Tome gear i360 and Savage/Upgrades were 370.

One tank, a PLD, was rocking Susano i320 sword, i340 left side, one i350 accessory, two i330s, and two i320s. Nothing melded.
The other tank, iirc was a DRK. They had i340 weapon, i340 leftside with I think an i350 belt. i330 accesories with one i350 accessory. Also nothing melded.

After the second 1% wipe I said them, "Hey, let's back out and have you guys meld your gear, at least. That's quickly doable and we'll clear NP. Maybe buy i350 crafted weapons if you've got gil."

Their response?

"It's not our TANK DPS that's the problem. Y'all just need to stop fucking up. We're tanking perfectly. Y'all just suck, and need to do baseline DPS. We know the fight 100%. These are our alts. Melds don't matter at this point."

So we win eventually... and then they act like they were the reason we cleared. I turn to the healers and thank them for carrying the shit ass tanks, and told the tanks directly that they suck.

When Alphascape landed, I considered PUGing it, but by that time I was in two statics already and I kept seeing all these PF strat names I didn't recognize at all and thought to myself, "Well, I've cleared the fights but I don't know those strats... not gonna hassle myself for some slightly better alt gearing."

Nowadays I only have the one static, and honestly can barely be assed to raid. It doesn't hold nearly the same amount of enjoyment for me that it used to, and I think it's for several reasons both outside and inside me. I go, I have fun watching my friends shit talk each other/make sexual metaphor jokes at the bosses. I enjoy killing the bosses a little. I turn back to my GF afterwards, and don't even touch my alts.