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Every 4-5 months, just as you got all the gear you could in arena/raiding, they come out with new content and a new tier of gear and the grind starts all over again. It was honestly a never ending circle. And the nature of the game is that you can't just pick it up and play a couple of matchmaking games, then go to bed.
You have to be able to sit down and clean your schedule for a good 4-5 hours if you want to get raiding/arena done. Even then, getting your gear is not gauranteed due to different loot methods, and the fact that you could spend 4 hours getting to the boss that drops your piece of gear, it doesn't drop, and now you have to come back next week for the same thing, then it drops next week and the guy who is infinitely worse than you at WoW wins the roll and continues doing 2 k dps. Fun.
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My guild raids half the time you did (3-4 raids per week, 3hrs max per raid), but we still get a lot done (we've completed Champion of the Ulduar Raider and most other hard modes).
If you think the sole purpose of raiding is to get good gear, then I can understand why you didn't enjoy the endless grind and gear obsolescence with each new dungeon that's released. I, on the other hand, enjoy raiding for the challenge of beating difficult content, the teamwork required to do so, and the jokes and camaraderie amongst my guildmates. Getting gear upgrades is the tool that allows us to progress to new content, not the end-goal itself.