Raiding is not the focus for everyone it wasn’t “designed as a raiding game”. We (friends and I) don’t raid, have no intention of spending time with whining, needy kids scrapping over gear, or toxic guild leaders who use players as “things” to get rid of if they don’t like them. Besides if you look at statistics a very small percentage of the playerbase raid “endgame” (a ridiculous phrase in an mmorpg as there IS no end of the game). In fact it’s us folks enjoying ourselves doing all sorts of stuff that has kept this game going with our subscriptions, if it had been left to the raiders, the world would be empty, players minimal…or no WoW.
There is plenty more to do in this game and have fun and we’ve met some great folks doing dungeons, or helping others out etc.etc. and have made some lovely new friends with the same mindset. When Classic dies we will return to other mmorpgs.