Those nothing but revisionist history. I agree that there should be a normal and hard mode, but I don't agree with anything else. I don't disagree with must if you're opinions, but there was way more elitism in the past. You couldn't hit Max light without getting an rng drop in a hard mode raid. Then you either needed that or trials gear to hit it. Now you can just do milestones to hit Max light. They took out normal mode, so they had to do something to restrict respawns. Would you be happy with two revives per person per encounter? There were tons of wipe mechanics in old raids. If you dropped the sword, dropped an engine part off the side, missed an Oracle or did them out of order, etc. People tend to prefer older raids to new ones because they look back on their first ones with nostalgia, and they rate everything since against it. When they re released the 390 raids there wasn't this much nostalgia for them I assure you. Once they're favorite cheese was removed people got upset. I loved gauntlet btw, especially the challenge. Our clan name is we can't jump, so I'm sure watching us would've been comedy gold, but I still love it.