When you grew up playing MMO's the goal was to marathon grind in a game for a year to get better than you were the day before.

Today it is to get the best in slot gear. It's a different game. Nerds today don't sit in a game to obtain a sense of progression. Today we farm to get better than the next guy.

You wanna casual content with a random group made up of your linkshell, you are more than free to. What you need to figure out is your real problem. You upset you aren't as competitive as focus'd groups? You think it's too hard to train a random every week? You sad 8 people is a split that doesn't fit the mold of your linkshell?