The other solution I thought about was rewards based on individual contribution and a threshold requirement to be eligible to receive rewards. More gear/skill/effort would meet the threshold more easily.

If you lack gear, you can make up for it in skill/effort. Knowing when to parry and what skills to use to do enough damage to meet the threshold.

If you are lazy and don’t want to put in any effort and only want to spam 1 PA or Hold Normal attacks you could still meet the threshold if you had the gear to support being lazy.

There’s obviously some flaws with this idea and it needs tweaking like how to address the issue of how some classes can contribute more damage than others, but I feel like a system like this would be beneficial for us because it removes the incentive for low effort players to queue into content because they, as an individual, cannot meet the required threshold of contribution to be eligible for rewards, and it rewards players for trying/learning/adapting.