that over 90+% of the player base will never see? Not because the content is too hard or challenging, but because it is gated behind achievements and feats of strength.

Let me explain what i mean.

"LFG NORMAL BLACKHAND MUST HAVE AOTC"
"LFG NORMAL FOUNDRY AOTC ONLY"
"LFG HEROIC BLACKHAND 690+ AOTC"
the list continues.

Forget about getting into a "mythic guild" unless you have logs for like your entire warcraftt history, and go through an application process much more rigorous than any job I have ever applied for.

Why gate progression and content behind achievements blizzard? Don't you see this is killing your player base?

Too mythic players. I have seen so many articles coming from "top end guilds" about how hard it is to find "new players" to join their roster after someone quits/joins another guild. Keep making it an all-boys club where you have to be in the club to join the club hahahaha. I can see how frustrating it is to new or returning players coming back to the game and trying to get back into raiding or pvping or whatever you want to do when you cant join a group for it because you don't have the achievement. Thank God you can go to a website like fakewowachivement and get a script to fake the achievement otherwise new players would just instantly quit and unsub as soon as hitting 100.

The largest problem with this is that "achievements" are only a "requirement" for raiding or pvping because they are a SOLD commodoty on the black market. let me explain

There is tons of "guilds" that offer services such as heroic and mythic carries, or pvp achievements tittles for x amount of dollars. Blizzard knows that this is happening, and does nothing to stop it, and even worse blizzard doesn't step in when their EULA gets stepped on by high end guild account sharing, and exploiting server transfers / black market auction house to break the progression race.

I hope blizzard does some heavy soul searching and changes for the next expansion to not only the pre-made group finder (example being able to report people for wanting outrageous ilvl requirements etc) or having "pre-made finder" be automatic invites and automatically invites 2 tanks and 1 healer per 5 players in the group. As well as removing achievements from the game that have a negative impact on player behavior.

In closing, all i would like to say is if there is no changes done to the game to affect negative player behavior the player base will keep shrinking until "mythic raiders" have no one left to play with. There is something seriously wrong with the game, if you have to commit fraud to convince people to let you join their group.

Blizzard why bother putting in new content...