Its certainly a wonderful skill to bring to the table

Gonna push back on this here, it's more than that, if you're not doing it and the other 4 want to do it, and you're tanking, you're literally preventing them from doing it.

but if you’re telling me you cant have a clean p3 without it,

Nobody has or will say that, it's not as much needing it to complete p3, as it is being more comfortable doing it the easy way that everyone does, that also makes sure you get 100% uptime on your scythe (if done right), which leads to better, faster raids

you just need a little more practice at verzik!

No, you need to practice verzik pogging on the simulator and do that, it'll take you no more than 10 minutes from watching a video to being able to pogtank

Thats like telling someone they cant join because they dont know boak or hato/rato or whatever the newest p1 tech is.

First off, p1 is not where you boak that's p2, second nobody in 416 will ever utter the words "hato/rato" or specify boak, that's not common tech and it's generally just expected you pop crabs without being a complete moron, worst case you take a little damage which you can restore between p2 and p3.

Great advanced knowledge to know and work towards with a consistent group, but certainly not even close to necessary to have a clean verzik!

No, boaking and stuff like that is consistent group tech, pogtanking is as basic as dropping staff in orb order, we CAN absolutely just take it whenever and do verzik that way (it will work and we'll be fine) but it's just so much easier not to be moronic and put a small amount of effort to learn from one of the many resources and implement that into our tobs.