@CGO39
in games, higher level guilds/groups typically use a trial by fire method, some games gear is easy to come by so just looking at gear is nothing, that and a raid set is so far ahead of what group is that regardless of what they have it's all garbage.
there are also games where skill and ability to follow directions matters more then gear, everquest is like this, so a few top guilds send a player with bare minimum assistance to demiplane of blood, it's not hard content but you need to pay attention or you wipe regardless of level.
in groups we did group with some people who were cannon fodder, as in the content we were doing would kill you with no way to avoid it, so the best way to do was have someone who played 12 accounts at once, yea no joke, come along and let him absorb most of the deaths because he was 100% useless any other way.
if this was irl or more vr that you could feel, I can easily see shady groups who get far preying on the weak.