There are many threads on charming vs quadding. Some people, like me, value the free time we have between quads to do other stuff (like read a book or work on a project). If I only consider the time I'm playing the game, I get xp much faster quadding then charming. Quadding is also safer, as you almost never take any damage, and even if there's a lag spike or you get disconnected you'll probably be medding when it happens.
I enjoyed the end game back on live with my top level druid (from whenever I hit 50 after release until 2002). I never had problems joining raids, etc. I think a lot of druids prefer to play solo and/or are less social people in general, and this tends to affect how druids are perceived. Also, since druids are able to solo so well there is less pressure on them to join groups, so they often just don't. A top level druid is the most versatile class, and is particularly awesome at certain things like power levelling people. These days I'm like the OP in that I have limited time and would find it hard to commit a large block of time to doing many group activities, so I almost always solo.
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