Originally Posted by
Aldath
It's not only ARs that have this issue.
Today I finally finished SB main story, and I knew Shinryu would be a dissapointment after Thordan. I took the subreddit's usual suggestion of creating a PF for the capstone fight and I spent more time waiting for people than in the actual trial. Actually, no one ever joined the party, so I ended up accepting my fate and entering DF. I told people in chat that it was my Capstone fight and I would like if we could go easy on the boss, to which I got "I can't read so I won't do what you're asking for" as a reply and the rest is history. Effing Lakshmi was more of a challenge than the final boss of the expansion.
I was told the normal content got increasingly enjoyable past HW, but I actually feel HW's normal content was more engaging, except for Thordan. I know about the evolution of this game and how Shinryu used to be considered too hard for normal content, but I see it's trend that things get increasinly easier to the point of whole mechanics being skipped. I know it will happen again with Hades, I know it will happen with Endwalker, and I know it will happen in the rest of Normal Raids and Alliance Raids.
Seriously, my interest in progressing though the game has never been this low.