"blind ego and ignorance"
Your entire rant is nonsense, just like in every other thread. WoW was never balanced, if anything we have best balance since a long time.
Needless to say its never going to be balanced.
"Alternative power systems" existed for very long, just in different forms (reps, badges, leggos etc), there was always something to farm outside of raids with exception of WoD that we all know how it turned out.
Just because you don't acknowledge it doesn't mean it didn't exist. You can't understand his arguments because you have extremely narrow horizon and/or horse blinders so you don't understand why your "ideal wow" would lead to it's destruction.
Difference is that I am fully aware that my ideal WoW (gear only cosmetic, everyone is equal, pure challenge etc) would be a
fucking disaster that would lead to garbage quality. You don't. Which is mind boggling since this happened twice, WoD and now in SL. You should know by now.
You want to have 1 raid per year with 5 copypasted bosses. Thats where it's going to lead.