Forced? Do you understand what a Massively Multiplayer Online game is? Do you understand that a raid is GROUP content? Forcing you to find a group to do group content is an excellent choice, because it's a multiplayer game. There are tons of good single player RPGs you can go play instead, I'd recommend Baldur's Gate :P
Most of the original reasons LFR came out are gone. It actually makes as much sense to remove it. I agree with you it's probably just gated to keep casual players subscribed. And I agree it doesn't need to be gated, but I don't agree that you're trying to avoid playing the game the way it's supposed to be played.
And on the topic of queueing, it would be a shitshow to have heroic queues, especially since the group leader gets randomly assigned. Nothing but wipes and discussion.