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I'm wondering if it's just that whole lapse of "the higher skill players got their stuff and have all moved on." It's something that always seems to happen at one point or another - the players got their gear and dropped it so you're left with, well, "the dregs." The new, the lazy, and so on. The coins kept folks coming back for a bit longer... but you're still going to see the drop once the players have their full kit upgraded - and even the addition of weapon upgrade adds only one more week unless they're going for multiples.
And I'm mostly speaking from experience because that's what I did. Once I had my full healer set upgraded, I dropped running those raids because that's an hour+ of time I could better spend elsewhere. Time management and all that. Also why I always tried to knock them out on a Tuesday, on some (possibly confirmation biased) belief that the more serious players would also be trying to knock it out as soon as possible to upgrade their raid gear for that week's attempts.
And I'm mostly speaking from experience because that's what I did. Once I had my full healer set upgraded, I dropped running those raids because that's an hour+ of time I could better spend elsewhere. Time management and all that. Also why I always tried to knock them out on a Tuesday, on some (possibly confirmation biased) belief that the more serious players would also be trying to knock it out as soon as possible to upgrade their raid gear for that week's attempts.