Do we really need emotes on raids?

Someone last night said something that made me go: Hmmmm ....

Since most of the raid mechanics are now focused on making people move:

The EQ devs should remove the requirement to stand still for casting spells.

Turns everyone into a "bard" casting while running ...

I am fine with emotes that need to be done. I hate emotes where one person failing it can screw everybody.

Brass Palace was also more interesting as a mission and that wasn't a HA, there aren't that many normal missions recently which haven't been HAs. THough if we have to have HAs to get non raid missions so be it.

That said things like Mearatas, Stratos, Gorowyn, show we can have raid like missions without all of the raid mechanics and still tell the story.