Agreed. I’m certain that we would have much more access to post-Incarnate difficulty content (other than raids) in the past seven years if the old reality was still active. I’m sure that we will get some of this for future updates, however, don’t expect things to move as quickly here as they would with a full time development team and you won’t be disappointed.
Until then, why don’t those of you that are unhappy with the current IO system go back to using SOs (and even IO commons) and play the way that you like. Maybe you could form an SG of like-minded players to play without being impacted by those that don’t follow your game philosophy.