I came to GW2 from WoW, because to me WoW is no longer a fun, absurd story stressful endgame content, etc. I am also a person who likes to have a lot of characters, WoW is not a suitable game for me, because we should really focused onto one character and it's not really me.
Subscribe per month make you must play for a day at least 1-2 hr, and what games give your rewards just for playing it a few hours with vertical progression?
For earlier patch Shadowlands, so many people invite me to join their group to do Dungeon and Raid.
Next patch, at least 2-3 people wants me to join the group.
Patch after patch, and i am ended up alone because my gear dated although my character so many 😂
Dude it's stressful you know, so I decided to stop playing WoW at 9.2, due to above reasons.
So I started to playing GW2.. I am casual player anyway, so maybe I am just doing Meta Events or Leggy World Boss, for equipment we could buy it and not to much difference with the leggy based on stat. I already have 5 human with max level, because I am bored, I delete 2, to create Norn and Sylvari hahaha
Horizontal Progression make your game fun, Vertical Progression indeed make the game more challenging.