Running out of leveling content.

[Septimus]

Er.. people didn't know how to play their jobs right before Abyssea too. Good gear constantly lost value before abyssea too. People still deadweighted their way through exp before abyssea. None of this is new to the game.

This. Seriously, this.

Terrible players are nothing new. We had terrible players at level 75 back before CoP when a great XP party was 5k per hour. (Not including RNG burns which were just being started back then.) Most of them were clever and leveled jobs that were needed at the time- WHM, RDM, BRD, PLD, BLM. But there were plenty of terrible players who were smart enough to gimp their way to 75 my making their own parties.

There is such a nostalgia filter effect going on in these forums. No one seems to remember back when 5k per hour XP was "OMG AWESOME!" XP. No one seems to remember when you could exit from Dynamis with 5 pieces of relic armor even though you killed everything non-stop for three and a half hours because the drop rate was just that terrible. No one seems to remember what a pain it was to sit in a tree for years to see a dragon spawn purple 90% of the time. No one seems to remember wasting hours farming items to make enfeebling medications for luck-based missions where you would still loose gobs of XP and required specific job set ups. Those of us who played that FFXI don't seem to be quite as nostalgic and see Abyssea as a pretty good deal.