It achieved the two things that were intended, fucked over cancer-guilds and fucked over equipping speed of people outside the world 200 list. Sadly they also sabotaged it with welfare m+ gear, because that is what it amounts to at this point. I really hope Blizzard will specialize gear more with the next expansion, because m+ has killed all incentive to raid anything below mythic at this moment in time - at least when it comes to gear progression.