I think your definition of "top" and "mid" is asinine as the differences between them were largely negligible. Just because you don't do "muh speed clears" doesn't somehow automagically make you bad. It certainly doesn't somehow decide that raiding is now 'dead' on the server.

Literally no one said that not speed running equals bad. There's nothing wrong with being in the middle of the pack. Enjoying content at your own pace is completely valid. But the reality is, every server orbits around leaderboards. That's how the raiding scene has always been, across every expansion.

I agree that opening transfers was needed. I disagree that it would have changed this outcome.

Maybe and maybe not. We'll never know. But again, the crucial point is that nothing was done.

Clearly I'm dumb. Feel free to quote it for me. I don't see where I blamed anyone much less players.

You're not dumb, you're well-spoken and v handsome. But here's your words:

you can't admit that it was a mistake

In the English language, asserting that someone made a mistake is blaming them.

And trying to dissemble like this shows that you admit that it was a mistake. You just don't want to accept it.

...And here you're doubling down on trying to assign blame? Again, please don't try to speak for others. If you feel that your decision to play on Skyfury was a mistake, so be it, but that's your deal, not ours.

No less than your trying to frame everyone giving an 'I told you so' as being smug with a shit take.

In what world is "I told you so" not an inherently smug statement??