I eat non-dairy ice cream. So there’s a way around something to get the same result.
My point being the line is more defined on how to progress rather than a blended choice. In my mind, most of these “progression problems” can be addressed by a trickle reward system of the valor tokens without the hard defined line of to upgrade you need KSM.
You get rewarded for your time invested and it’s not game creaking because ultimately M+ dungeon rewards SHOULD cap out and push you into Raiding, rather then this hard defined line that hey if you want to raid that’s fine, but you get 1 raid and a garbage chance at loot rather than a multi tiered chance at loot in a M+ key stone run method.
If I had the time it is more profitable to run M+ all the time for BIS gear rather than a weekly lockout of one raid a week.
That’s why I feel “forced” if I want to see personal progression I am not going to see it as quickly, relatively speaking, if I were running just Castle Nathria once a week.