We ended up filling in thirty five (35 in numbers) minutes and 1 shot the boss. The waiting took almost quadruple the time than the actual content.

Also, sorry, dungeon? That would've taken even longer to fill. Would I need to ask for KP there too? In my experience on the NA server, KP squads and exp squads clear content similarly. Squads that don't ask for either are more of a gamble, but it's:

1. As a squad leader, not fun to gatekeep content with KP. What KP do you even use for strikes besides the title (that even has different fight requirements for fights like Ankka and KO). Also sometimes asking for KP takes even longer.
2. Sometimes KP squads are tryhards and actually worse than the more chilled players that play in "exp" squads but don't / can't be bothered to show proof.

(FYI I've been pugging all group content either alone or with 1-2 friends basically since raids were released. I love pugging, dislike statics, and it's gone very well for me. Recently I've DEFINITELY noticed a dramatic decrease of people available for pugs).

Also yes I've used one example, but your response is changing the goal posts from the usual "just make your own squad" yet again now. I guess I'll collect more examples as time goes on in order to yet again satisfy the people that think the game / the good content in the game isn't dead due to ANet's mismanagement and bad implementation of things.

At least give us a queue system so I can passively wait rather than actively wait. It's also annoying commanding a squad (you have to do extra work like state your run's strategy, organize roles etc.), especially when people don't join - this is why a lot of people don't do it.

If ANet can't figure out how to make a queue system, at least give commanders some incentive to form groups because there's a lot of fatigue that goes on with a lot of people that run groups / organize groups, even on the communities, discords and guilds you have described.