Why do basegame 5-pc dungeon sets still bind on a timer?

I was obsessing today about ways our benevolent devs could reduce server loads, and this question surfaced out of nowhere. (Yes, I know they have Reasons they can’t implement my rando ideas, hence, this forum post to purge my crazy brain before it spirals into oblivion. Agh I’m late for work!)

But, seriously, why DO basegame dungeon sets still bind on a timer? I was playing back when most sets were BoE, and even though it was inconvenient when they switched a lot of them to BoT, I understood their reasoning. At that time, some of the basegame dungeon sets were BiS, very hard to win for your average player, and there was no transmute system to ease the strain of farming the right set with the right traits. People who got the drops were sometimes taking serious financial advantage of those who didn’t get the drops. It was a nightmare system, and the BoT sets eased that in certain ways, or at least made it harder for scammers to scam the new guys. At least the new guys still had to run the dungeon, still had a hotdog’s chance in heck of getting the drop. But also, the change made it harder for everyone to get BiS stuff, which wasn’t exactly great, even if it did even the playing field a bit. Those days are long-past now, though, aren’t they?

Now, many, many players are 2k -3k CP. There are a million better sets from the vet trials, vet dlc dungeons, vet arenas, PvP, etc. We can solo those same basegame dungeons on vet, hardmode, speed run, no death, just for 5 mins of funsies. If not, finding a group of 2-4 who can do ‘em is as easy as any rando pug from Group Finder, Guild Chat or Zone, or just get a companion. Killing a basegame dungeon boss is about as hard as killing a Public Dungeon group boss solo, depending. And, that’s okay with me. The sets from basegame dungeons are a great springboard for new players to get equipped to do even harder content. I’m glad they’re available to nearly all but the most non-violent crafter/traders.

So, why is the system still running all those countdown timers on the 5-pc basegame dungeon sets? No one is gonna be scamming anyone over those in 2024. No one is gonna be skipping buying a dungeon DLC because they can buy these sets for gold in a trader. (They’re basegame, anyways. They come with the original game, so no additional purchase necessary.)

The vet Monster sets? keep ‘em BoT
5-pc DLC dungeon sets? keep ‘em BoT
The trial and arena sets? BoT or BoP

5-pc basegame dungeon sets? It’s time they were BoE, if only to reduce server loads on alllllll those pointless timers.

That’s just what I think. I want the servers actually running useful timers, and those timers are just a drain on server resources, now.