We’re working on a hotfix that will end the separation between War Mode and non-War Mode players in Oribos.
After realm restarts, whenever they next occur, you should no longer need to change your War Mode status to see other players who are in the opposite mode in Oribos.
Many of the quests are designed that having higher ilvl doesn’t increase their speed. I think Blizzard must have seen the stats that people almost exclusively did “Kill 0/1” quests in BFA and thought that just wasn’t on.