I'm not part of an elite hardcore guild. I run what I consider a casual, relaxed 10 man guild raid that is currently 5/7H. We raid twice a week for 3-4 hours. Which is why I define us as casual.

Whenever I read these articles about raid difficulty, there's always a big following of people who support the Wrath days and how it's too hard now and they can't afford to spend the time/effort/whatever and it's really tiresome.

I'll be downvoted for sure, but all the people who complain are those who refuse to get stuck into the content and get their hands dirty. I for one want to feel like I've earned my epics, not have them handed to me because I hit a spell on my bar once every few seconds. Most of the complaints I see are people being unprepared to learn fights, understand mechanics and to give it a shot, and to that I say, if you're not prepared to do the hard yards, you don't deserve the reward.

It takes no more than 10 minutes to watch a boss video, it takes no more than 5 to read the dungeon journal (you don't even need to load a website anymore!), instead of posting here you could be researching a fight so that when you face it, it's not a complete shock.

Everything in this game is doable, but you need to take some initiative and some accountability and realise that it's up to you to put in the effort.