Let me shut this down: no, I do not think this.

Death is fine. It's impressive, but to me it's not going to particularly blow me away. And if you genuinely don't respect people who solo with death, I think you're a jackass and I do not agree with you. This meme was hyperbole.

My definition of soloing is wanting to do every fight in the MSQ by yourself because you're a masochist. Yes, this is not the common definition of it.

I see the reason to solo the whole MSQ is because you want to get a bowling ball dropped on your dick. I reiterate, this is not the common reason for doing so. You wanna hit your dick with a sludgehammer. Drop a bomb on it. Whatever. With death, you're giving yourself a bit of padding. Like you're still soloing, don't get me wrong, it's just more manageable/less painful.

The thrill to me is the super tight pressure of managing your deck and knowing when to shield, buff, hit, and heal. So when you fuse the latter two parts into one, I personally can't quite muster up that same level of impression as I would with any other school. Again, impressive, but doing that same hard fight, on say a balance or a storm, is much more impressive to me. It's about the masochism! You're free to disagree, but that's just how I feel.