I'm going to add that trying to speed up your gearing rate by doing Savage is a pretty sour experience. After doing it for multiple tiers I can say that it is nothing but a frustrating, unfulfilling nightmare where people seem to always get at each others throats due to differences in how much time people have to learn the content, and no matter where I go to try and get the tier going, people constantly believe they are falling behind on clearing content if they don't have it down by week 4-6. Do they understand how many hours you need to grasp some of these mechanics properly and execute them?

Then you got people who get ahead of whatever static group they are in complaining about people not knowing a mechanic at all or what it does after watching a video on high concept, or trying to understand natural alignment from a vid that strictly shows a bunch of positions with people running between them, without any narration on what the effects going off are doing except in plain text.

Also going to add that the reason end game gearing is slow is because of savage. If people geared faster with savage than they'd have a higher gear score more quickly going into it, which means the bosses have to be adjusted to compensate for it, or at least that is how it would work out since they intend to have people get stuck for the most part until their gear improves. Those that clear savage quickly are outliers.