It's about knowing the game and being efficient with your time spent.
If you want to take longer and lose out on prof and be inefficient when you play it's fine if that's what you enjoy.
Maybe it's just being uneducated about how much better things could be when you do climb.
Regardless of your gear you can apply a few principles when group climbing and shave tremendous time off your climbs and easily increase your prof gain by 30-50%.
That means more climbs with the time saved, faster prof gain = more damage = even faster climbing = more climbs it's a continuous benefit.
Here's one example:
My time counter is off for actual climb time which was 1:30.
This climb took 1:30 with only 1 caster and 4 melee.
It was an all black climb using no exp glyphs.
We didn't do it the most efficient and still hit 1:30.
Ideally you always want the driver also being the tank.
We had 2 feeders in the climb which killed some time because they can't get the actions of a Sami+ class.
And we had a good actions class tanking which hurt because tank armors lower your damage and clicking which slows you.
That being said it was a 1:30 and because of the clicking style it was that fast and ZERO heals were used.
If we had explored 45+ it would have been 1:45 or less with this group.
The difference in my actions here vs a public climb is a lot.
If I climb public with 3 other casters my actions should go down to close to 5k because of the charging of casters and the damage ratio of multi cast.
Instead my actions go up to 7500~ and the climb time will increase to 2:30~
This group above set up the way it was, which again wasn't even the most efficient and with only 1 caster, would be doing double the hc climbs that a 4 caster public group would be doing and in less time.
Just an example. I'd love to help anyone who has any questions or is curious please feel free to pm me.