I miss when Beastmen strongholds were actually dangerous and you had a hard time going in alone just to get your AF piece, so you had to party with someone. Sure, it might have been an inconvenience for some people who you know, have jobs and families and love telling everyone how they don't have time to party in an MMO and want glorified single player games with a chatbox, but it was fun teaming up with other people inside or even sneak in behind another party. Now it's just another walk in the themepark, walk in get your relic starter, walk out then walk in again a bit later to kill a couple of really easy mobs and walk out, they're also much smaller and don't have their leaders yet even though their rooms are there but they're locked.

I also miss going to dungeon and primal entrances a bit, even the path to Ifrit Extreme was "extreme" with a bunch of level 60+ mobs on the way compared to normal Ifrit, now the only endgame-combat related reason to leave a city is to go to Wineport once or twice a week and you're done. But you know, Final Fantasy, just released, entitlement and stuff.