I understand everyone's frustration about the decision to not have matchmaking in a post-matchmaking world.
No. I don't think you do. You've given no tools to find the people to play with.
Either you know 5 other people to play with, or you don't.
I'm going to end up on reddit trying to form a raid group and spend the most frustrating time not having your content beat me, but nothing being able to actually form a group together.
You should use a gearscore for matchmaking and provide it. It's not like the clans will help, we can't type to each other.
You've basically said, "Bring your own". EQ was far more forgiving. I know. I was there from beta on. I could find guilds in /ooc, join them, and in /g decide to do content together.
You're not even offering that. I'm SOL doing your content no matter how dedicated I am in the game.