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In a perfect world they wouldn't have to nerf instances whatsoever. Back in vanilla WoW when the top guilds beat BWL I'm sure most casuals that still couldn't beat Rag thought they'd never ever beat Nefarion. This turned out to be incorrect as given enough time, many of those same guilds progressed through at their own pace without such grand sweeping nerfs to do it. Granted the keying processes weren't on the level of TBC by any stretch, but its not like the TBC keying quests were that difficult that even most casual guilds would eventually get it done.
Perhaps its an issue with the speed at which new content is released that the top guilds see guilds below them who could never have hoped to have figured out some of the later fights as quick without nerfs or videos all over the place. I'm sorry but no title or special mount means anything next to beating an encounter you know only a very small percentage of the game population can do. Maybe that is an extreme elitist view on raiding but I don't think everyone should get to see the entire game through nerfs and making it progressively easier. If they did a better job of scaling instances/gear to require everyone to do more of a step ladder approach to raiding you would see the casual guilds slowly progress at their own pace. There would likely be much uproar over how tough encounters are and how much they want to be where the hardcore raiders are already but in the end the content is all there and accessible to anyone who wants to see it. Complaining about the difficulties of organization doesn't make it impossible or even terribly difficult.
The old argument about only 1% of the population getting to see Kel'Thuzad is a foolish one, as he represented a much, MUCH, smaller % of the entire game's content. The greatest nerf there is is simply time, and given enough everyone could eventually see all of the content, and those with the time and skill to see it faster would do so, without having to see it turned into watered down easy mode.
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