It’s a meaningless statement. Wherever you pin the difficulty it’s going to be “gatekeeping” by your dishonest definition of the word. Hell, by your definition having to go to a delve at all is gatekeeping. Even needing to be 80 to access t11 delves is gatekeeping!
You are attempting to win a ridiculous semantic battle to earn the right to call one of the fundamental building blocks of the game’s design, “gatekeeping”. It keeps you from having to actually engage in the topic at hand, but it’s utterly transparent. As if this is a simple algebra problem that you can solve if you can convince everyone that X = gatekeeping, because as we all know gatekeeping is bad and if you can equate the position that delves are overly rewarding with the scary word, then ipso facto you win. Hooray!
Ok, and? What is wrong with there being things in the game that exist that not everyone achieves?
But that’s not what you’re doing, rofl. I’m not sure if you think the people reading this thread are blind or illiterate, but precisely zero of them believe you’re just sharing how much fun you’re having. 100% of them can see the childish way you’re trying to “neener neener neener, we’re having a disagreement but I’m getting my way hahahahahahahaa”.
It’s not exactly difficult to see because you aren’t even trying to be surreptitious about it.
I’d put a lot of money on my being more whimsical than you. The issue with people who are the type of liar that you are is that you think everyone is like you. You don’t see words as a means of communication so much as you see them as a puzzle to be solved to advance your selfish agenda. And of course, you are all monumentally selfish and narcissistic. It’s difficult for you to even fathom someone having a stance that is based on what they have reasoned is correct, rather than what serves their own purpose in the most shallow and immediate way.
I enjoy delves. I want them to stick around. I want them to be iterated upon. I want there to be a satisfying progression curve for players of a wide range of skill levels. I just understand that that doesn’t mean every player needs to be guaranteed to climb through every tier or achieve every reward, and I understand that as part of a shared PvE ecosystem delves need to coexist with raids and M+ in a healthy way.