Finding a group for explore isn’t the Devs problem, it’s yours. Do you have any guildmates or friends you can party up with?
I wish an Anet employee would do this with green/blue armor that you normally give people from chests. There is always the argument that dungeons are for “the elite of the elite” in GuildWars for dungeons, but does this mean full exotic geared armor? If so, I was under the assumption that the whole point of people doing dungeons was to just to get max exotic gear? I would really get a good laugh from Anet employees testing their own mobs getting 1-2 shotted by the crazy amount of silvers mobs they expect people to kill with non-exotic gear (only possible with waypoint death spamming), but that’s just my 2 cents. I wouldn’t expect a reply and know they are trying to balance dungeons, but at this point you are pretty much telling more than 70% of the community that if you didn’t exploit your way to exotic gear, you are pretty much S.O.L. (My opinion is coming from someone already maxed exotic gear with 3 sets (and 2 separate weapon sets) and believe it’s unfair for anyone trying to start dungeons).
Explorer mode is meant to be difficult and for skilled and organized groups, so let me get that point out of the way. The problem is the lack of incentive to actually do a run in 1-2hrs when you get 30 tokens total, when you need a minimum of 180 for the cheapest armor piece. Nobody would have a problem buying the rares that are at 30 tokens for one piece even if their aesthetics look bad, but they are inferior pieces of armor (stat-wise) when compared to exotics. So what do people do? Completely ignore the “garbage” rares and try to get exotics. The problem? The insane amount of grind to get said pieces of armor. So if a “real run” takes 1 hr for 30 tokens, you would need to do 6hrs of grinding in 1 dungeon to even buy the cheapest piece* if Anet cannot understand how grindy this is, then this game will fail soon.
I don’t think people are mad with the buffs to the dungeon, people are mad (and have been mad) of the bloated token amounts you need for 1 armor piece, reducing rewards → more grind. The problem you made when creating these paths is that not all paths for a dungeon are created equal, if 1 path takes you 30 mins and another takes 1-2hrs, obviously you are going to pick the shorter time, so dungeons have never been balanced when you released the game. Make a path 1-2hrs, but at least compensate my efforts for an increased token amount/xp/silver or I’m just wasting my time.