Guild Wars 2

I’ve maxed out all available masteries except for the Raids track, which is still locked as I haven’t killed a boss. I’m unable to earn XP towards this track (obviously) but I’m also unable to earn XP towards Spirit Shards. To be clear, I have no interest in raiding content. I also don’t particularly care about Spirit Shards, I just want my XP bar to work.

This might seem like a frivolous concern, but I LIKE earning XP. I like watching the little golden motes zoom down towards the bottom of the screen, and seeing that bar fill up. It’s FUN. And at the end of the day, FUN is the reason I play this game.

If the raid mastery track unlocked automatically, that would be fine. I would fill up the bars, never set foot in a raid, and be happy as a clam.
OR
If the Spirit Shard XP bar were enabled when all unlocked masteries had been attained, i would be happy with that. I’d ignore raids altogether and swim in my yummy yummy shards.

Unfortunately, with the current system I don’t earn any experience at all in Maguuma. All those friendly little XP motes just vanish into the abyss of existential nothingness, and I have a little less FUN while playing. I have tried unsuccessfully a few times to get a boss kill. As someone who doesn’t enjoy the gameplay style of raiding, this feels like an arbitrary hurdle just to get a basic gameplay element to work properly.

What are the chances of getting this changed?