I think you have a point, but there are several reasons why it's like that.

1) Some of us dont have the time for EQ parties. I know there are times when
I can only play for maybe an hour every other day or two or three. If that's
the case, I want a guild/race combo that can I can just log in with, run
around with for half an hour, and then quit out whenever I need to ... ===>
tiger/spider

2) It's easy to get an attitude that EQ is inaccessible to the lower 95% of
the mud. There's the time factor. There's seeing big scary highbie parties
getting pwhiped (when you know even the tarms in those parties could kick your
ass). And we can't forget that some people dont have 6 or 7 boons (And yes, I
know eq is supposedly doable even without boons). Even if all those are just
excuses it's still easy to see where the attitude comes from.

3) The third reason is that a lot of people dont see the point. Why should I
sit in a boring party, getting repeatedly killed, when I can do cash/exp at
duz+ assorted other areas, and have fun killing stuff and make the cash in
probably less time it would take to gather a successfull party and kill the
monsie enough times that I eventually win dice? Especially for me, I could do
cash for a half an hour and get enough to buy a piece of midbie eq.

4) The minimum exp for rebirth is -generally held to be- lower than the
minimum to do high end eq

-Doot DooT the dwarf who doesn't do eq very often.
-Doot DooT the dwarf (tiger/spider) who doesn't do eq very often.