Yes unfortunately.
Welcome to what MMORPGs have become. It’s no longer about the adventure, experiencing the new or forgotten, and good times with friends, it’s about optimizing to the absolute maximum for parses and speed clearing (even if your guild sucks they try to mimic the “best” players and what they do)
Probably the worst type of culture to have taken over the Genre.
Raid logging, loot pinata, only take the best possible team for the content culture, even though just about any composition can clear it if mechanics are done correctly. Best setup for the fastest easiest clear or we don’t play mentality.
Give me loot now and give it to me easy, all while having a contradicting complaint of the content is too easy after min-maxing the living hell out of it.
Best advice I can give you is find a chill guild who just enjoys playing the content together and not about parses if your goal is to play off meta picks. That’s the approach i took almost all of classic, and I don’t regret it one bit. Will my guild full heroic clear? probably not, but i’ll probably enjoy the game a hell of a lot more than 90% of those that do.