Even if 25 mans are easier to run, they are not easier to organize, and thus stating that new 25 man guilds/groups are being created all the time because the raids are easier is not accurate at all. It is more difficult to organize 30 people than 12. 10 man raiding is easier to set up, period. For the raider there is less pressure to perform in a 25 man if you aren't a tank, sure, but that's about it.

I read guild leadership and raider type forums all the time. To say there are as many 25 man guilds around now as there were in January is not true. They aren't being formed as fast and some are dying. I've heard of entire servers where there is one 25 man guild left, or none. In addition to this, almost everyone these days seems to request 10 man strats.

Also Al'akir 25 and Council 25 are not easier. Some bosses are easier in 25 and yes you can 22 man normal content although I'd question how many heroics you can get down with your 22 man group. It isn't suprising that your group went in as a 25 and got down all of the bosses it had taken you two weeks to down before in two hours because people knew the fights. We went in with a group who had never done 10s and we got down the heroics in four hours what it took us six to do in the previous week AND we got down a new heroic boss in those four hours. It works both ways.

totally off base here. you must not have ever tried to organize and lead a consistent 25 man team. only people who have no experience with 25 man cata raids claim that tens are the same or harder. they aren't. period. full stop.