Does Tier 3 really need to be this hard to obtain?

Are you 12?
You wrote your novella as if a 12 year old would.
You can get T3 in Naxx wotlk right now.
If you want to claim the prestigious pieces that only 1% of the playerbase earned at the time before you were born, well blizz has caved and allowed you to buy those too, which is even less work than earning the wotlk T3 pieces. You are buying wowtokens anyway.

And blizzard was known for not being ‘ruthless’ with their raiding in Classic, that being a large proponent to why they flourished compared to the MMO competition at the time. But you weren’t born back then, so I understand how you couldn’t know that and also can’t read anything on the subject since your education system failed you since.