There is still one elephant in the room: No matter how easy normal is, it requires either organisational time which many people don't have (like in my case), or some kind of experience of running a raid, which again some people don't have (which I have from TBC and Wrath, but I have not been a raid leader since then), or people don't want to put up with guild or PUG drama (again, my case - my guild is too small for any kind of a raid, we are only enough for a 5 man group).
I have to look for a group in the finder, because I CANNOT make my own and CANNOT have guild runs. First, there are not many of them in the LFD, this will possibly get better some weeks later, but possibly not. Second, though I have a decent item level (845) and have successfully run some mythic0 dungeons (when I could find the time and was lucky to get a group - since I am the only one in my guild with an item level which is sufficient for mythic dungeons), I get declines for mythic0 and normal raids most of the time, and then I just decide I have better things to do.
We got legendarys out of LFR in 2 expansions. It took us at least double as long, I guess, at least because of LFR availability gating. Why is it now not OK to get an artifakt quest chain out of LFR, especially if the only difficulty in Normal is the organisation, but not the fights themselves?