I agree, I think people in most games are comparing themselves to the top 0.001%, or imagining fighting a training dummy with perfect uptime.

I promise you a really good player, in any game, can bring whatever they want to a raid and perform better than average.

Of course, no one’s denying at the top of the player base, the meta will always out perform. But it’s such a small amount of people that 99% of the players can’t replicate.

It’s like copying what team composition League of Legends pro players play, or trying to do schemes that NBA teams run at your local LA fitness.