Do you think the average GW2 player is out of touch with the normal player/person in enjoyment?

I don't say this to rant or anything, I sunk 1000 hours into this game myself.

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I started playing again last month and I checked out Mukluk's video on how to do Skyscale. Just watching I had a feeling that my soul was leaving my body and I couldn't know why. I looked at the comments and I realised my feelings are shared lol. Maybe when I was younger I could tolerate this type of gameplay, but now I'd say my attention span is wayy shorter than it used to be. I looked into unlocking legendaries, and it's even way worse than I thought.

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I'm just wondering because from what I know, I think players here think time-gated game design is fun content and grinding and repeating the same task for hours if not days is enjoyable and relaxing, otherwise they wouldn't do it. There was a time where I probably did too. From my experience as well, I think the average gamer/person doesn't tolerate this type of game design.

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What do you think?