It feels like if you weren't the raid leader (which I've never been unless you count my Naxx/AQ group during BC) hardcore raiding took up way less of my time in vanilla, BC, and most of Wrath than it did in Cata. The old time commitment would be easy for me now, Cata was a pain and it sounds like MoP was similarly annoying except instead of running LFR a million times to get specific people their T13 set bonuses (now that they changed the loot rule) there was a lot of dailies you HAD to do every day to get rep up?
And now they are saying the next expac you can't cap valor through raiding either? A lot of the WoW players have gotten older and have more responsibilities like job, family, etc what is so bad with allowing us to just focus on the part of the game they enjoy the most without feeling at a disadvantage? I'd be more likely to come back if I knew I could just raid, only raid, without being at a disadvantage, once the initial once an expac leveling/gearing up in 5 mans process was over, with lots of optional content that I could do the days I happen to have more free time. Instead of having to feel like I need to log on every day and do 10 non-raiding things to get some advantage for raiding. Dailies were a lot more fun in BC when the rep was mainly for vanity items...