Why pay a subscription?

[Vaer]

I'd wager that if doing them all over again to achieve a "grind" isn't an enjoyable experience, then there's no reason to do it the first place, because the "end", being fully geared, will sooner rather than later become null in terms of gameplay —no later than the next patch. So if you didn't enjoy it, then you've gained pretty much nothing.

What I said here, however a bit more extensively.

Except you need to do it to do the other enjoyable things up the ladder, which is the entire reason why people do it even if they don't want to. Game design stonewalls you at some point with gear checks.