There Has to be a Middle Ground

No buddy, barely able to walk into raid as in my item level is barely high enough to qualify as a useful candidate, and not just a warm body soaking up purples. You can be the most competent player in the world; most boss mechanics have enrage walls that you’ll quickly run into if you don’t have the minimum requisite gear.
In fact, here’s some more anecdotal evidence to support my complaint that the loot system is broken and I don’t want more gear dropping, just gear dropping more consistently.
I ran FIFTEEN dungeons yesterday on this shaman and got ZERO drops.
I just finished a Mythic 0 Sanguin Depths on my Blood DK and got TWO drops, both of which were “upgrades”, so even if I wanted to be generous to the warrior in the group, I couldn’t.