Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Kuwagami]

Because it is a Final Fantasy. Content, being it main or side, always has a Story behind it in a Final Fantasy. Coil is not needed for the Mainstory tho.

it was a rhetorical question...

Side quests have some kind of reason to why you are there, no? That's why the hardest bosses aren't in the main story. It's so you can get most of the picture without being stuck on something unable to see the end.

see above. I'd like to add that while not needed to follow the main storyline, Coil's lore is absolutely needed if you want to understand deeper the world you're wandering in. It adds a lot of important stuff to understand Bahamut and Carteneau's battle. It's just sad that people are gated away from that content


(but yeah, ez mode of Coil have already been proposed just for the story, and got trashed away because "why u want mah gear ?". While it was never asked that "story" coil should have any loot)