That thread is from a salty guy who only plays solo pvp. He is the exemplar of modern random gaming, and wants that for the last remaining place in wow where your name can earn a reputation.

WoW is a shitty game with shitty problems, but their mythic plus dungeon system was one of the few places where you could actually meet and interact with real people who you will see again like the old days.

Sounds like some kind of a cartel has developed in the bottlenecked player base for manual matchmaking

he's full of shit though. no one gives a shit about your spec in a +4.
yes, you won't be invited to a +10 if you haven't done +9s. Why? Cause there are 50 people applying to the +10 who have done +11/12. why not take those?

Nothing stops him from creating his own group and running his own key. Will take him 3-4 bricked keys at most before he gatekeeps people as well.

That is a REALLY controversial take if you ask people who play warcraft these days

Two things. First, public servers have always been the default for MMOs, and by their nature it makes sense to have it. Only today did I learn about things like "realm shifting", and I find that even more cancerous. So there is some level of exemption that MMOs garner by their very nature.

Secondly, why would I care about people from "these days"? Most people "these days" are morons who either weren't playing back then, or they got used to the cancer and forgot how much better it used to be.

It's been like this for over a decade.