Like a lot of others, I don't mind a challenge, but I don't really think it should be applied to something that every player is required to do (A level limit break quest). If this was to unlock the WS instead, I think I'd be a lot more okay with it. Really, for me it's not even so much the "challenge" as it is needing to get a group for it, because these days most halfway decent players do stuff in-house with their LSs. Most of the complaints I heard over Maat way back when was over the need to farm a testimony every single time you wanted to fight him and not so much over the fact the fight itself was difficult.

I also find it funny people harp on about challenge and strategizing, even though for the majority of people it comes down to just doing the same brute-force techniques used for pretty much every other monster in the game (Manaburn, Pet burn, PD Rush). So don't delude yourselves into thinking you're somehow ingenious in how you're able to do the same things people have been doing for months to beat yet another underdesigned and underthought BF boss.