The unstated assumption seems to be that the game’s philosophy ought to be: all instances, all content, all rewards — should be available to everyone, regardless of how they play.
I’m not even bothering to read past the first paragraph.
You clearly didn’t bother to read past the thread title.
Get down of your high and mighty egocentric horse. Read the first post.
You are the one making assumptions, about the suggestion. Assumptions which are in fact wrong.
I read the first post. The OP wants raid encounters to be in fractals for practice with fractal rewards and maybe achievements, but with only 5 people. That will take hundreds of hours of dev time to manage, by turning 10-person content that (sometimes) makes use of Raid Masteries into 5-person content on a different reward schedule.
Why spend all that effort? Raids are already successful among the people who do raids, which, by the way, does not include me. I have yet to participate in clearing a single wing.
It’s not “high & mighty” to suggest that MMO players have a wide spectrum of beliefs about what constitutes a fun, fair, and good MMO. It’s not egocentric to suggest that the current setup works for the type of player for whom it’s designed, especially since I don’t happen to be one of those players.
I have nothing against the different philosophies players have about what constitutes a good game. I think, however, ANet’s been clear enough about their philosophy and I have chosen to accept it as part of the game; it’s simply more fun to play GW2 when I’m not arguing in my head about everything ANet does with raids.
tl;dr The OP’s request is huge, not minor. To even suggest that this change provides so much benefit to GW2 overall to make it worth the effort suggests a massive difference in philosophy about how raids and their encounters are supposed to work.
PS Next time you want to throw shade, you might consider actually reading what the person wrote. In my first post — on which you had to comment, but refused to read — I mentioned clearly that I was against ANet adding raids to the game.
Had you engaged in a conversation, you would have learned that I have yet to finish even a single wing. You would have found out that I do fractals all the time. You would know by now that implementation of the OP’s proposal offers great personal benefits to me, for all the reasons stated in the OP’s post.
In other words, if I were being “egocentric” about this, I’d support the OP’s idea. So again, reconsider your word choice before tossing around insults indiscriminately.
