Third party tools are a game design failing in a multi-platform game

[Darthgummibear]

The game literally has tight DPS checks in hard content. Parsers and loggers allow you to see where the problem is and address it. Do people use it in the way you describe? Yes, they certainly do. But that doesn't mean that it is all it is. Nuclear energy doesn't just level cities, it can also power them. Just matters how you wield it.

While this technically might be true, gaming history has shown that by far and large people will take any opportunity they can get to gatekeep and belittle others. One of the more notable examples of this exact phenomenon is when the GearScore addon was released during WoW's Lich King expansion. It amplified a toxic element of that community by several orders of magnitude almost overnight.

I would argue that the ones who would use parsing solely as a personal improvement tool are the exception, not the rule.