Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Pixela]

The difficulty in XIV is mainly in positioning to avoid telegraphs, and because content is insanely predictable you're going to beat it with repetition with guarantee across the board. You don't really feel massive pride in beating something, because you can feel it's designed for you to win with a high %.

The difficulty in XI is mainly linked to progression to withstand the strength of the enemies and in the randomness of encounters, you feel more pride in beating something becasue you feel they actively try to make you fail with mechanics such as <20% fu modes, unable to calls trusts in combat (for solo players) and randomness such as back to back charms, aggro resets, sleepga, silence/ga if mage was too close etc.

Being a good tank or healer on XI means you put a lot of work to engage with progression, understand mechanics and practiced a lot.
Being a good tank or healer on XIV just means you queued as tank or healer and do some dps.