Jesus, where to begin? I mean right off the bat the majority of the changes were targeted to specifically prevent mage boosting as opposed to making the leveling experience more unique or different, and it accomplished almost nothing. Then, with the sped up timeline, MC and Prebis farming has become irrelevant, most 50-60 dungeons and the entirety of t1 are invalidated between DM being baseline, and the existence of free r10+ gear (which btw you messed up three times) however, despite the ease of early ranking you still managed to create a toxic sweat fest for r14, all over again, regurgitating the same “terrible” system you yourselves condemned, while doing nothing to change ranking in a positive manner, instead you just nerf pool party viability, and actively encourage the literal hellscape that is the r14 grind (trust me i’ve done it 4 times now).
Why even play, its not a season of mastery, its a season of time sink. Leveling > pvp grind with AV being the only current popping BG, its just time, there is no skill, no challenge, its time, nothing has changed, its simply play 127 hours a week, and invalidate tier 1-5
That said, I do think ranking should be “easier” but keep to release schedules, pvp and DM being out before MC / BWL is a meme, to be frank it wouldnt even matter if HWL / Grand Marshal gear was free, so long as you gated it better, having that and dire maul instantly doable gives people 0 incentive to dungeon, or raid till at least BWl and in some cases AQ
Pretty much every SoM change was the opposite of QoL, for no reason. It seems like every time people adjusted to the unforgiving nature of classic, you killed it, but never addressed anything wrong with your own sh1t game, you just punished players for abusing in game mechanics