Honestly, I wouldn't even mind paying the crystals.
Don't get me wrong, imo the raid as a whole is enjoyable, and I have a side task of slowly relicing my teams to try and get the max individual score. It's just that, as so many have said, it takes up a lot of time, which is even worse when you also have to worry about Conquest, TB, GAC, TW, who knows what else. On top of that there are still bugs within the raid, namely for me at least, Protection Disruption being inflicted on Gungans despite Phalanx's unique saying they're immune to it, and the raid DDK's cooldowns (it's supposed to have the same cooldown on the shield special as the playable DDK, yet it somehow is able to immediately use the special again once the DI goes down, the cooldown is supposed to start at 3 once the special is used, but it immediately starts at 2; my guild will have enough tickets to launch the raid within a day or two, I'll record it if I have to).