This event is failed and should have been a new raid instead of an open world meta.. Honestly, The focus going into strikes over Raids clearly has Anet fairly disconcerted.. Meta events are supposed to be casual, or at least semi-casual events and capable of being completed more often than failed..
As to the "edit": You stated this change takes away from your accomplishment.. That's an elitist mentality.. Whether you like this fact or not, is of no consequence.. Trying to cite taking people with disabilities thru is actually fairly shameful of you. Anet has pretty much admitted the event is overtuned. They are trying to rectify this.. Don't confuse your luck with skill.
That being said, this meta has 0 replay value to it.. Once you get your egg, there's no reason at all to replay this unless you just enjoy the meta for whatever reason. The achievement associated with clearing it before finishing story was ok, but locking the biggest thing you advertised and baited players to buy the xpack with, AND telling them it's going to be comparable to getting the Roller Beetle in difficulty pretty much makes me think that either Anet was worried nobody would care enough to play their content so they needed to force it some way (at best) and at worst, some form of false advertisement where they said it would be fairly easy, then put it behind something like this to force players to play (not necessarily enjoy) the content they made.
I don't sit around with rose colored glasses, praising any garbage that master Anet puts out.. HoT and PoF, Anet had put out MUCH better content than this.. They didn't lock any major advertisement stuff behind overtuned metas.. My calling this crap out isn't an act of malice or defiance against Anet.. It's my way of holding them to the higher standards I've seen before, but they seem to have lost sight of with this... thing.. they have pushed at us, and prayed we would just go with and sing praises blindly (like many are just happy to do).. those people do NO good for the company. They NEED to be challenged to do their very best, otherwise they will not produce the same great quality we saw in HoT and PoF