People say it isn't fun to play gimped with barely any "good" gear. while this may be true it is up to each individual to make this decision. This is allllll a "you" problem.

Yoshi-p will simply just counter with ilvl is this, we've gone as far as we're going to go on this. Do the japanese care this much about this subject? I'm guessing not otherwise we would have seen changes on this by now.

There is healer shortage because the tier is actually a bit harder to heal than previous content and a lot of people are going "waaaaaaahh it too hard waaaahhh". And then yes you get randos in PF who have no idea what mitigation is (addle, feint, etc.) because they've never had to think that hard before either and you have a recipe for the storm that we have now.