What is happening with Gatekeeping

Day 1 player with Roaster 273, Main is 1690, Brel HM Ready, with a roaster of 1660x1 and 1640x4. All alts are full elixirs and Transc including weapon. Yet I cant join a single lobby with my 1640's.

My Static is dead (5 people quit the last 2 weeks), now its almost impossible to join a raid with my 1640 alts. I am sitting on 900k gold and I don't even wana hone from how aweful it feels and the fact that we start honing with 10% and drop that to 5% within 2 hones in tier 4. It feels aweful to go back to playing without a static again, and NOT gonna look for a new static. Toke me over 6 months to find this one, not even joking. Why are people gatekeeping Thaemine 1-3 HM when its a tier 3 content on my 1640's?