I'l say this, a lot of people, including the guy above doesn't realise that what is easy for him/her might not be easy for others. Raiding is easy as fuck, but then a lot of things are easy as fuck when you know how and are good at it. The big raider secret is that other players have not always got the ability to do things so easily as you, they can't always grasp things so easily and/or they haven't put in the relevant time to develop those skills.
A lot of people probably don't even realise they are developing skills beyond what others do. Whether you like to think about it or not, being a raider who was succesful at the high level, who was able to get server firsts or high rank in WOL meant that you were one of the players who probably did find it easy, probably didn't understand how it can be considered skillful, but it isn't that easy for everyone.
And I understand that looking at it from an objective perspective, as someone who understands the concepts well... You could easily from your own objective perspective say "there is nothing special about this, it's easy and we just put in some time and perform actions 1, 2 and 3 etc etc"... But that is the bit where a lot of people did the same and failed, because not everybody is capable of seeing it in such a simple form as you or i.
I admit I agree there is definitely nothing special about raiders, but back in the old days a lot of people did see them as special, and the gap in skill between players was (and still is) sometimes massive.