I hate the new meta of "run past all the trash"

Yeah, it sucks in cases where the trash can and does kill stragglers, and those stragglers are put even further behind the rest of the group. Possibly even kept there, as the satyrs after Nythendra seem to have no range limit for their abilities and can jump all the way back to players respawning at the entrance portal. It’s already a heck of a run to get from Nythendra to the central chamber, and players who die—which I’ll stress is almost always from Befoulment, a soak that additionally roots you and makes it impossible for you to keep running with the group—will have to repeat it which almost certainly causes them to miss out on at least one boss.