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Gear is also a way to prove you've got experience. Nax (as an example) is setup with a certain gear level in mind. You're not supposed to ding 80 and be ready for Nax. Your expected to run a few heroics. Those heroics have mechanics that will challenge you to be better, thus improving your chance to survive the harder challenge of Nax. It's not wrong for people to expect you to have a certain level of gear.

If Bliz had a way to make it easy to estimate the gear a person has, and posted expected gear level for a given instance, people wouldn't have such unrealistic expectations. I've run with several groups who've been "burned" by a undergeared healer, or inexperienced dps/tank. I don't blame the players much, cause they didn't know they couldn't run Nax. They keep hearing how "easy" is it, so they figure why not try it. I remember when I thought it was ok to raid in lvl 54 greens.

I also don't believe that a majority of people expect you to have Nax epics to run Nax. Sure you'll see some noisy people asking for geared people for a badge run. They don't want to have to teach people the mechanics. They want to chain pull. They want to clear in under 3 hours. You can't really expect to do that with random people in subpar blue heroic gear who don't have vent.

Gear proves experience, and it also buys insurance against poor teamwork, communication, and skill. Realistic requirements posted by Bliz would go along way is smoothing out the issues of running with PUGs.