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Now, I personally don't like this system, but it's what the end game community expects from anyone trying to enter their niche. No substitutes allowed.
I'm not sure why you think gear costs more for tanks than dps/healers. On TR they all have similar weapon costs for SF and Imp. It's also a supply vs demand, there were a lot of Brawlers so making or buying Imperator for Brawler early on would obviously cost more. It's also not the community's responsibility to just hand out free/cheap VM gear anyways.
Tanking comes down to knowing boss mechanics and while most bosses share mechanics and tells, you're not going to be worse off for not tanking low level dungeons. I feel like IoD bams do a very good job at educating people on tells, so in my opinion if you're looking to learn avoid dungeons altogether as open world bosses are the best source of learning.
As it's been said I won't touch on it other than to repeat, pre-65 and 65 tanking are very different and you'll be afforded a lot of time to train on relevant content at 65.
All that said, if you're a good tank you'll be able to hold aggro no matter who started a boss first. You may struggle positioning a boss since it doesn't seem they're offering you the opportunity to move it, but that's not something that matters pre-65.
There's nothing special about tanking pre 65.
Still not an excuse to be an annoying twit to anyone who asks politely for something.
(Edit for [filtered] grammar)