Literally your entire post was complaining that people “can’t follow a guide” or “need a participation trophy” like some entitled boomer that thinks the entirety of the problem is on the players and not on the balance decisions that cause the problem to begin with.
A minion necro with the most optimized gear, paragon points and skill tree will never clear as high as high as spirit wave.
A fully optimized ice shard sorc will never clear as high as a minion necro in the pit.
The list goes on and on.
The only reason that these builds are unable to complete higher level tiers is because blizzard decides they will not be able to by making their multipliers smaller.
Why should a player be forced to play a specific build to progress their character? How is it a “participation trophy” for wanting to be able to have access to the same level of drops as another build that blizzard arbitrarily decided would have access to 150% more multiplicative damage than the build you want to play?
The delusional part of your entire post is thinking that tier 100 is more difficult than tier 80. Tier 100 is not more difficult. Mobs have exponentially higher health. Otherwise it’s exactly the same. You either will be able to kill everything instantly or you won’t. It’s binary by nature and many, including you, seem to conflate that with difficulty.