Tanks are the only ones that should be looking to hit gearing breakpoints. 540 defense so you cant be crit, and hit and expertise so you can actually hit to build threat and can actually do your job.
Dps should just be looking to being able to hit the target. Outside of that no one should care, no one should be saying how easy something is to get (I dont buy the whole 50+ hour a week job, going to all these family functions and being able to do all the other stuff that is being pushed as a requirement because “its so easy”, that whole thing is a big red flag) or anything else when there are still queue times, and a bunch of other stuff going on.
When in Wrath people would check me with gearscore and say “oh you arent up to snuff” and I would say go find someone else then but they would still take me. No, you dont need BiS or even close to BiS in wrath. Just hit the important stats. Defense, spell hit, melee hit/expertise and go have fun.