You said this and to that i say its nonsense.
If you make content where one person is excluded, you are as a dev setting yourself up for failure.
Content is meant to be enjoyed and yes sometimes you can have a build thats not viable in one situation but viable in pvp for instance say world of warcraft has different stuff one for pve one for pvp, same for gw2 some stuff is built for pvp.
Having a entire elite being prevented from doing content because they are going to get bullied due to making it so severely underpowered that it encourages toxicity and harrassement is madness and that is why i said i said what you said is nonsense.
If content isn't balanced correctly, then you as a dev are failing at your job.
Imagine if i made a entire class with awesome lore awesome graphics but unable to compete in content, well why create such a thing? nobody is going to play it if they are going to get grief.
Nowright now 35k is probably more or less fine maybe kind of on the low side by 1 or 2k but its still a good start.