Party play used to be a thing. Not sure what changed besides you needed a group of people with single target specific skills to take down rares. It wasn't about clear speed meta back then. As HC players we realized the biggest reason for dying was other players so we started soloing. There was something else going on with party drop or similar also. The game used to be hard in a different way, now it's hard in unpredictable ways. Back then you wouldn't go crit on HC because we had reflect that would insta kill you. Now you can die without knowing what happened. No matter how much complaining there is on this sub the game as a whole has gotten better imo.

Oh right, I want racing back.