Please implement something to teach players how to play

[Shurrikhan]

Anyone that doesn't take hobbies seriously enough to want to get decent at them should maybe find something else. It just boggles my mind. How can anyone not want to be good at things they enjoy?

"Don't you dare read a single book unless you're committing to reading 20 this week!"

People engage with their hobbies at a variety of levels. That's why they are hobbies, not jobs.

A more apt analogy would be to read a good psychological drama by skimming through it haphazardly, noting by its end only that you, "Heh, got some chuckles, at least," and then asking that the author better milk their comedic aspects, even if at the expense of all else... despite those aspects being the least of what was great about the book to anyone who read the whole thing.

Or, say, calling yourself a "drone enthusiast", but your only actual involvement in that is saving up several grand, buying a high-end drone, and seeing if you can fly it more than a hundred feet before wrecking it, for a change. No actual learning how to fly, no actual knowledge about or interest in the drone itself, just spending and crashing, because the thrill of potentially not destroying your hard-earned money is, for you, entertaining enough in and of itself.

By experiencing the entertainment so differently from was intended, one inevitably ends up split from everyone else and ends up having interests and preferences at odds with anyone who experienced the subject area as intended. Expect backlash.

Nope. Relatively new phenomenon in MMOs, and an atrocity.

And a reason your DPS queues get longer.

Literally present from the start, and across DnD before that. "Healer" as some mutually exclusive task set is the far newer idea -- albeit one that doesn't actually exist in the class designs themselves, but simply in the minds of those who want an excuse for time spent idle.