So do you have any actual data to back up your claims then that raid participation was an issue in Wrath? My experience across several servers was that raid participation was quite high among many types of players.
You LFR defenders are all the same. Your entire argument is based on a poor idea from a developer that no longer works at the company.
If LFR was such a slam dunk, then why did the game continue to bleed out subs from Cata into late MoP? The WoW IP is still very popular, but people don’t want to play the game. Age of the game is irrelevant, just in case you try that angle.
WoD proved this by having subs spike back up to 10 million, but players quickly left. I’m not blaming LFR solely for this, but it just goes to show that LFR isn’t the savior of the game for casual players that people make it out to be.
This game had 12 million subs without LFR, just ponder that for a second.
Classic is going to show too, that LFR is not needed in the current game. People have been playing private servers for 10 plus years and the raid participation is quite high there with no LFR.