That’s the problem with current encounter scaling
Going from normal to extreme isn’t a “little bit of a step up” it’s an absolute ocean for many players
Normal raids and alliance raids used to actually be that sort of bridging content but now that dungeons are sleeper mode raids and alliance raids have been pushed down to where dungeons used to be and the gap between normal and extreme continues to grow
There needs to be content between current normals and current extremes and normal raids are the best positioned to be that