I don’t agree with this outright. I preferred the MoP version of gearing. VP were in place to get a decent amount of gear but not all slots at the normal raid level. World bosses dropped a couple of tier pieces that could couple with LFR tier pieces to complete sets earlier. I could venture into normal for the weapon or trinkets if I wanted better than LFR versions. Then there were Heroic ilevels. Those were in Heroics (now mythic) and were fine there. I don’t want an easy path to the absolute best gear. Every now and then, I liked a tier set enough to try to do the heroic versions. It was fun. The current ilevels on Korthia pieces, etc woudl be fine if there were other ways to get research (like Heroics or Torghast) allowing it to go a bit faster than it currently does. I have ultimately just ignored gearing all together and log in to do Torghast solely on my DH because the builds are fun. Otherwise, I generally ignore the game.