More accessible doesn’t mean 10%. It just means more accessible.
Prior to Shadowlands and by extension Battle for Azeroth, casual players had plenty of interesting content to engage with, so this is actually just wrong.
It’s not my fault you can’t seem to understand that fun games will have replayability and longevity come naturally to it instead of being artificially forced by carrot and stick systems designed to pad out your game time (I.E. gearing).
Zelda Breath of the Wild is a fun game. Because it’s fun, it has a lot of replay value and doesn’t need to put in any systems that keep you playing. You come back to it because the game is just fun.
World of Warcraft is the opposite. It is not fun. It is marred by systems that are meant to keep you in a cycle so that you keep coming back to the game. These systems don’t serve any purpose in the game except to waste your time, I.E. the gear treadmill you are so desperate to defend.
If the content was fun, you’d play it regardless. You wouldn’t need an incentive to play it, and so when you say that the longevity of a game is reduced whenever gear is made accessible, what you are actually saying is that the game isn’t that fun and is reliant on systems to keep you playing.
Make sense, or do I need to dumb it down even further for you?
Do you seriously need me to make a list of all of the wildly successful games that have character power scaling linearly with the challenge of the game?
Even Zelda was popularized when you needed to get specific items to even continue the next part of the game, and those items came from increasingly more difficult challenges.
In BotW, you can actually go to the hardest part of the map with the lowest level gear and still clear content. Again, wrong. There is no linear progression in the game.
Trolling is demanding the gear rewards in WoW without engaging in the game modes that reward them.
Trolling is telling everyone they should play the game because it’s fun but you should be allowed to get the gear because somehow in the middle of the most gear accessible patch in WoW’s history, you find yourself unable to gear.