It is now, it won’t be in season 4 as things are set to be.
Is Blizzard forcing you to, or is it your guild/raid team doing it or are you forcing yourself to do it?
If the first, it is an issue for sure, if it is the second, maybe you need to find a less stringent guild/raid team, if it is the last: get over yourself.
Anyone reasonable does not want to change that.
No, the difference is one is playing the game how they feel it should be played, and are fine with it as that is the way they would play anyway. The other wants to play their way yet is being blocked or told to quit because their way is not the “right way”.
End of the day, some want progression, but on one side we have those who feel they deserve none and on the other side, anythign that could be a progression path (torghast/visions) gets put in, gets complined about and nerfed so it is not a progression path anymore.
As far as this goes, I would have made it so all conduits, or the currency for the upgrades, dropped in raid as well as from Korthia, you could do both for the fast track yet if you cut out one, you could still progress. I would have even made the raid drop more of the currency.
Solo players are not forced to do that because they do it anyway, also you can get rep in the raid to work towards unity, so if you really wanted to, you cold skip the world content.
The thing is, one can ask for things to be able to be earned in multiple paths, like the rep from ZM and in the raid. But the issue there is, with multiple paths, people will feel forced to to these things to get what they want faster.
You keep using the word forced, the thing is you are “forced” to do it because it is not something you would willingly do if you did not have to for the rewards you want. Why not ask for raiding to be the express lane for things like conduits or rep while the world content is the normal or slow lane?
Well, keep in mind the ones on the forum are likely a minority of a minority, that said however, which is better: solo players being happy, raiders being happy, or the ones in the middle being happy? I ask because while the solo players might be a minority, those that do solo content are not, so would it not be better to make sure both are happy, or at least satisfied, even if the loudest minority will never be? In short, you can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you can’t please all the people all the time.