I hope they never release a DPS meter

Damage Meters are the height of laziness. They don't contribute to raid encounters. They skew the data of the encounter. And all of the information can and should be figured out by hand if you really give a crap about the numbers.

Here's an excellent example ...

Blackwing Lair. Back in ye olden days of WoW.

DPS for a Rogue and a Mage.

First encounter, Razorgore. DPS meter tells us what exactly? Certainly not anything meaningful about winning the encounter.

Next boss, Vaelstraaz. DPS Meter again tells us only that if a rogue tops the DPS charts (like i often did) ... I was ... a- Placed correctly. And b- healed by the paladin correctly. Not that I was doing anything better than anyone else.

Broodlord . DPS Meter tells us what about this encounter? Nada. The toughest part of that fight is just getting there.

Firemaw, Ebonroc and Flamegor. All endurance fests. The DPS Meter isn't giving you any useful information here.

Chromaggus? Really? This fight is about the tactic, not the damage meter.

And finally, Nefarian. The entire fight is again about coordination, not damage meters.

Damage meters are indeed the height of laziness. And never have much at all to do with end-game raid encounters.

Strategy. Tactics. Teamwork. That's how you beat raid encounters. Your damage meter can stay at home.

All I want is a combat log in the first place, anything else is fluff.

Obviously. But for this game? There's none of that which requires a DPS meter. You don't need it to beat anything in this game.

Mostly people requesting it in this game just want to know what buttons to push in which order.

Which all they'd need for that is a combat log.

Something I do support them adding to the game. But then, I think people who really want to know what buttons to push in which order should do the hard work and the math themselves. Put some effort into things.

Otherwise, it's ... as I said ... lazy.

most fights are no longer designed like they were back then.

Again, you haven't been keeping up with the times. Almost all Warcraft bosses have an enrage timer, and the point of the enrage timer is to make DPS accountable. You still need coordination, you still need interrupts, you still need crowd control and you still need buffs/debuffs. You still need to stay out of the fire.

But you also have to make sure you're killing that guy as fast as you possibly can, or your group wipes. It's fun, it's challenging, and it's impossible without knowing what you're capable of.

I don't give a damn about "adventure" when I'm trying to figure out if XxBoBAFeTTxX or SEPHIROTH42069 is the one that sucks and needs to be kicked in order for us to beat the boss. Or hey, I might even be the one that sucks. I would never know without a meter. If my damage is not where it should be because of user error, I want to know about it, so I can fix the problem. I strive for greatness in every game I play, and so should anyone who wants to be serious about completing content like Heroic modes or Raiding.

Not that either of those, it seems, are difficult enough to warrant needing to be on top of your game to do. That's a whole other disappointment, and a whole other conversation.

The damage meter doesn't tell you anything important. It never did. Guilds beat content through teamwork and tactics. DPS has its place, and if your guild is even worth a damn, its officer or class leader knows how to train the DPS to do their job in the encounter.

Fast forward a couple years. DPS meters aren't just about dps anymore. You should look into it.