Hasn't it always been like this? I remember the only way you used to get into groups if you had 'little' experience was to make the groups yourself. Last time I played WoW, every group for end game stuff declared that you needed the achievement and a gear score of X in order to be invited; incidentally as the group leader, you didn't need to expose yourself to such checks.

Also, for the sake of argument, a lot of places, at least in Australia, require you to have experience for jobs, even medial ones, that you incidentally can not get without having the experience you'd actually get from that job (which you won't get, because you don't have experience!).