Which isn’t relevant.
None of which is relevant information.
You’re comparing casual player gear to raiding player gear as if they are on the same wavelength, and that is a decidedly retail wow mindset, NOT a VANILLA mindset.
You where intended to be raiding if you wanted gear, let alone epic quality gear in OG vanilla, that’s how the game was designed.
You CHOOSING not to engage in that activity, does not entitle you to get your endgame content pushed forward. Suck it up and wait in an authentic manner for the D2 sets to get pushed in, and frankly be happy that Blizzard ever put it into the game in the first place, because there was an entirely justifiable uproar on the forums when it first came out, because it was handing epic level gear to people who willfully didn’t raid, which was a fairly massive deal at the time.
Stop pretending this is BfA where you are entitled to epic quality gear, for refusing to raid, when the near entirety of Vanilla WoW’s gear progression post 60 was based upon raiding.