Calling it "scummy" is an... interesting take.Man, titanforging needs to fuck right off. The only reason easy content (lfr/warfronts) are in the game is to reward people who either aren't capable of doing it or are too lazy to put in the effort to be capable of doing it. The idea that someone in lfr is capable of getting the 385 shield off of Vectis just because lol dice rolling is stupid. All war/titanforging should be capable of doing is getting +5/+10 ilvls above the base of whatever level of content you're doing. Fuck, there's a guy in my guild who got a mythic 6 titanforged 395 cloak in the first week of m+ and he hasn't had to replace it in 3 months. That is asinine. When the raid group I lead downed M Mother for the first time I gave someone else my loot because it was a downgrade for me. That's fucked.
This isn't even a casual vs. hardcore thing for me, I don't consider myself hardcore. It's the design philosophy in and of itself that's scummy from Blizz. Let's give people gear that is a higher ilvl than they've earned to make them feel good. Let's give them that dopamine hit so they'll keep playing our game. This design philosophy has activision's fingerprints all over it. It's sad to see that AV has done this to Blizzard.
But yes ignoring that hyperbole, titanforging is a very misguided concept, at best.