I’ve been on the Diablo forums for years. Diablo 3 forums were where people would talk about Diablo before the D4 forums.
From my experience, I cannot remember posts about “RAID” content being popular at all. Nor many ever being posted. I’m talking like years go by and you might see 1 or 2 and they would be inundated with replies saying “my one wish is that I can play all of D4 solo”.
So why is Blizzard now talking about this?
If I were given the job of relaying feedback to Blizzard the last thing I would think about is “RAID” content or forced group pve.
I think a lot of people are excited about Diablo because they have left mmos behind, given up the addiction or perhaps like myself, don’t enjoy the guild and group aspects of taking on high level content. Mainly because I find mythic raiding guilds in wow to be toxic and cringe, racist, misogynistic, bullies, exploiting every broken class or system they can and having zero respect for new players they think are below them and couldn’t possibly keep up with their skill level. Now in Diablo I have a chance to prove myself to be at the highest level of play, without having to rely on or socialise with others. I will admit I’m not the best at socialising either but this is often why I am treated badly by others in group situations.
The other things that surprises me about devs talking about “RAIDS” is one of the few times I’ve heard it brought up was the recent beta with media influencers. So does any and all feedback from streamers go straight on to the drawing board?
If it were my job to relay feedback from the forums to Blizzard this wouldn’t even be a bullet point at the bottom of my list.
Harder dungeons/mobs/bosses, class balance, 6 skill slots not being enough, better skill tree with more puzzles to solve, and pvp is what I hope the devs would talk about.
People have been asking for decent pvp for years. Recently Rod Ferguson shut down a question about esports saying they have no plans for it. This was kind of discouraging he didn’t at least say what most devs do which is “you never know what players will do with the game”.
There is a dedicated and passionate pvp community in wow that have played for decades like Stoopzz and Xaryu. And there was a push to try and make wow pvp an esport. People really care about pvp.
Stoopzz is already making D4 content 
DI was a mobile port and a bad game without all the controversy imo. Not deserving of being in the Diablo franchise as I think Diablo should be a ground breaking game like we are seeing now. But one of the main pieces of good feedback from this game is a lot of people liked the pvp if it wasn’t for the whales.
So why are Blizzard coming at us with “we might add forced group pve and copy Lost Ark mmo style and make RAIDS”.
Please talk about pvp instead. Maybe an Invasion mode for 1v1s 2v2s 3v3s etc which we don’t get in fields of hatred really. Or Arena? Or Battlegrounds? Or more extraction type game modes? And ways of keeping these modes fair with balance and not having rmt or p2w in the game like being able to trade gold.
I just really don’t understand talking about RAIDS before the myriad of other issues and content people want.
If I’m being honest the map seems a bit small to me when you consider what we explored was 1/5 of the total map. If you compare this to wow vanilla, wow was way bigger and felt like a real world. Although I will say the artwork we saw for the final map which is much larger than what we’ll get to explore when the game launches, does look very satisfying size if they end up extending the map out that far and adding new areas.
But yeah basically I would rather so many other things were being talked about by devs and added to the game over something I’ve seen outright asked not to be put in the game for many years.