Who said you can’t? I was remarking on the philosophy of the post.
You remarked on the philosophy by inserting a strawman argument about time commitment. You don’t need to devote tons of time to be successful. The philosophy was about earning the rewards and pushing through challenges. Or staying at your current level and playing content at that level.
No I didn’t.
Catering to people who claim they feel forced to participate in content they dont wish to is the worst decision the devs have ever made.
Oh yea, i never got to play with the max quality of the shadowlands legendary on my main back then, had to get the tier just below it. I was not among the people that liked to do torghast. My issue with it though wasn’t that it was tied to power but that it just felt boring? I enjoy rogue-likes and have spent a lot of time in them. I love metroidvanias too with many branching paths. But torghast was like the same copy pasted thing over and over. it didn’t feel varied enough, didn’t feel like the power ups were busted enough to make a god run feel amazing, etc. I feel the same way after doing delves. Believe it or not I disliked delves so much that for like 95% of the season I just didn’t do them. I hit ilvl 570, hit lfr, then went straight into m+ on basically all my toons I wanted to play. Same issue with delves not well balanced/tuned for all specs and same copy pasted thing. I know how they could make torghast better, I have no idea how to make delves better appeal to me, so I think that’s a problem…but most casuals like it so I can only talk about my opinion of them. If it works for most people then I think that’s okay and I hope they add more variety and options. But the fact i had to do that boring activity for my legendary added to my dislike of it
But for the OP topic, the point was just me explaining how we got here. People asked for x, got x, then said we don’t like x, asked for y, got y, then no no no no, and now that we’ve gotten to the point of “cosmetic only” rewards, people are finding it’s not hitting right. My opinion is that it’s because the tier sets were mostly unimpressive as were most of their vfx enhancements this season…pvp as well. The monk tier set for instance is just the zaralek caverns plate set with a different coat of paint. To the extent I would argue the shoulders and helmet don’t feel monk themed at all