There is quite some scope between having something immediately and chasing an item for years and still being not a jot closer to having it.
I’ve been working on Awake the Drakes achievement for years. I found a post on the forums from 2022 by me saying “Been running this place on and off for years”. Since then I’ve been running it every week (much of the time every day).
Still possible to mount farm via sharing Raid lockouts with alts?
Some form of bad luck protection is not unreasonable to request. We aren’t demanding items immediately. But if every kill added 0.5% to the chance of it dropping (even 0.1%). Then after 100 kills I’d have a 50% (or 10%) chance of getting it.
Currently those hundreds of kills I’ve made on Deathwing count for nought. I’m not any closer to getting it now than I was in 2022…