The issue is no one, especially ffxi players asked for what we got in this content.
Open world exp parties is as far as you can make a comparison of ffxi to this content. They took the absolute shallowest aspect of this and made it a mind numbingly boring experience. Button mashing without thought endlessly without break. No ffxi player was secretly begging for how this turned out.
You could easily make a more friendly version to exp parties (hell for actual exp) that isn’t this dumb.
I don’t expect perfection. I’ve been playing since 1.0 and am pretty patient with them trying to get things right, but this is garbage and an insult to ffxi players if this is what the development team thinks of us.
