If you’re going to just assert that Blizzard openly lies about its reason for changes, then there’s no hope of presenting evidence you would ever accept as valid. I think that’s called a witch hunt–you seek support your own narrative to the exclusion of available facts and logical conclusions.
For those with some modicum of rationale thought…
The Game Director said in a Q&A that removing ML in favor of personal lloot was about having “more control, as an individual, over your fate. … What group & master loot mean for many people is that their rewards are at the mercy of others in ways that often AREN’T FAIR.” See this post and the video time-mark referenced there.
P.S. I would be in favor of ML being allowed for 100% guild groups in Mythic Raid. I also think item-level is a bad “trading restriction,” but I don’t see how they can do better since they clearly can’t balance the power of secondary stats and sockets. At least war/titan-forging is gone! 