Age has nothing to do with it.
Blizzard is overtuning this game to make it a pay to win game for boosters.
My guess is that the devs themselves are the boosters and they have a switch they press to make it easy to complete +20 mythics with 4 players and a carry.
Look at Diablo Immortal. It costs something like $500,000 USD to reach the “end game” level.
Blizzard is all about the pay to win now and dont mind sabotaging a very well known and respected franchise in order to make money.
They have zero shame.
My advice is to just not even care. Do what you can. Enjoy what you can out of the game. None of that “top tier” stuff even matters unless you feed into the bs that it does.
It’s purely a psychological game to separate you from your money and it’s simply not worth it.
I’ve got KSM the past several seasons as a healer in 100% pugs, as well as 2100 RBG.
But this expansion? I’ve got 8 level 70’s and havent done a m+ higher than 12.
That’s because it’s blatantly obvious that the challenge between the old ksm and the new is probably 10x times harder on the healers. Healers used to be able to carry people but now they can’t. Unfortunately the majority of people fail and need to be carried, so there is no longer an option for me in this game.
Not unless I want to quit my job, move in with my grandma, break up with my fiance, and devote my life to running mythic plus with a group of people who also have no life outside of wow.
No thanks.