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Yeah, I totally understand that.

I lead a 40-man raiding guild for four years, with 60+ raiding members and a few dozen social non-raiding members. We would raid 3-times a week but were competitive with (and sometimes surpassing) the 5-6 day raiding guilds on our server. I mostly loved it, but there was so much people management, so much drama - I did not love that part.

In classic WoW, attendance was a constant problem. On progression nights where we'd be trying to kill new bosses we'd struggle to fill the raid, often starting with 35 and hoping to get the rest by the time we got to the boss. Our first kill of Anub'Rekhan in Naxx was with only 35 people. The core group grew up on Molten Core, so they knew that progression took time, but the newer recruits were spoiled by our progress through Blackwing Lair (we cleared the whole thing in 4 weeks, 3 nights a week) and early AQ40 (a new boss a week getting to Huhuran). When we got stuck on Huhuran for 3 weeks, all the new members started crying about how this was it, we've reached the end, the guild is done for, it's going to fall apart, we should all start looking for other guilds. And then we killed her on the 4th week, and the Twin Emperor's the week after that. Never did get Ouro or C'thun before BC came out - those two were tough. But on non-progression nights? That's when 50+ people would log on, and we'd have to figure out rotations for who goes in for which boss and so on.

And that's on top of recruitment issues. AQ40 and Naxx needed 6-8 priests and another 8-10 other healers, but those were usually the first to burn out, and we were constantly recruiting and cycling through priests. But hunters? Oh, we had a solid core of 6 hunters who were always on, for like 4 slots.

In BC, recruitment and attendance became easier as classes became better balanced and raid composition became more flexible (although we still seemed to burn through healers and tanking warriors, while of course swimming in DPS warriors), but drama seemed to pick up a lot. New recruits would turn out to be drama queens and attention seekers, veteran members would start being suspicious and paranoid of one another or would get into fights. By the time that BC came to a close, I was so burned out on the drama that I didn't even want to log onto our guild forums some days.

Between advertising the guild for recruitment, interviewing new members, evaluating members, managing the members, having performance evaluations, and resolving inter-personal issues, it was like running a business. It was an awesome experience and I feel really fortunate to have done it, but as much as I loved it, after 4 years I was ready to retire and get my life back. :)

Sometimes, it just clicks and it all works out. Other times, people just don't get the tactics and repeatedly fails. That's the way raiding goes. Its suprisingly hard to get 10 or 40 people all doing things at the right time.