Originally Posted by
Eschaton
I don't know why this would necessarily be true. Forgetting the fact that people managed to raid before 5.2 without doing dailies, it's much, much better now with the improved drops in 5.0 LFR raids and the rest. The catch-up mechanisms in place would make it all the easier to avoid all of that and get up to current without doing a ton of dailies.
While I won't argue that lots of people found the subject of dailies a ripe target for complaining, bringing it up now--today--is sort of last year. Especially with regard to what the OP is asking about.