As I’ve said before when season 4 was first announced:
We had heard a couple weeks ago (dunno where it came from, though) that gear would NOT be increasing in season 4 - and everyone I know was overjoyed.
This expansion’s raids have been tedious, unfun, and have burned people out. People do NOT want to do Castle Nathria again and they especially do NOT want to do Sanctum again.
If Cutting Edge remains available through the rest of the expansion - which I very much hope - then we’ll just stick with Sepulcher and ignore the other raids.
Why bother doing the same raids all over again just for gear that will be obsolete the first day of Dragonflight?
It really seems like nobody on the dev team actually raids anymore.