Yes and the context for that specific exception is that it was very clearly announced when guild banks would be added(which was also earlier than they were originally added)
Not everyone(or class) has a tank spec, nor does everyone with a tank spec want to tank.
It doesn’t help that the loot satchels suck compared to what they were in Cata.
What if I told you the number of tanks isn’t a problem. Not everyone gets to do everything all the time. Make friends → get groups. It’s a core tenet of the game.
There is plenty of tanks and healers. The shortage is for pugs.
My raid has a boomkin that heals our heroic dungeons with his off spec, a DK that tanks for heroics but is dps for raid, and a warrior dps who tanks dungeons as well.
I also have 3 tank/healer alts i am leveling to 80 just to do heroics with.
Originally the plan was having them all be tanks, but turns out healers are what we are finding a shortage of. So my paladin (off spec prot) and druid (off spec boomkin) will be healer while my DK (no offspec) will be a tank.
Just gonna say here, above posts are correct, if RDF was added, everyone would probably ignore the anti-RDF minority here on forums and never group with them, at least no manually. And if I saw a few of them I recognized off here I’d try my hardest to kick them. Ya wanna gate keep us for 2 expansions and then try for a third one? ‘‘The future is now, old man’’. Kicks them from group and they get deserter debuff KeK!
I have over 15 tanks (for some it is their off spec) on my friends list, i ask. And that isnt including inside my guild, i got to know all of them through puggin.
By the time i get through the tanks i know that are online i usually have a tank in group.
Your freinds list sounds like mine, except I had more than that, and all mages on mine a few months ago lol. Had to be able to buy my boosts in a quick manor.