Dark Clouds Gather

[Skandranon]

We took different paths, Skan.  I was in your position once, stepped out of the guild for a couple weeks, and then realized I could 1: jump to a raid guild or 2: go back and build this one more toward that direction.  It had become un-fun, as you say.  The week or two away let me solve some of that, and I sat back and looked at the guild, and figured out who the likely raid-chars were, and who the casual ones were who weren't going to be interested in the work to get there.  I went back and started working on getting people ready.  The pull of seeing the new content and the new loot wasn't strong enough to pull me away from the guild that had helped make me what I was. 
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You're still missing the point. The primary reasons I left had nothing to do with raid versus casual or progression in endgame content. I had heavy personality conflicts with people who are in the guild, and it was emotionally draining. People in the Stormrage guild know this; they're aware that I was increasingly becoming unable to play with certain people. With no resolution in sight, I removed myself.

All of this, of course, you'd know if you'd actually read my posts. The lure of new content is, at most, tertiary to my reasons for leaving. Did you have serious conflicts with guild members, up to and including arguments across guild chat and in tells? No? Then you weren't in the same situation.