It's about time to add Coil story mode, isn't it ?

[Tiggy]

Am I the only one believing said "ultra-hardcore raiders" are like totally negligible when it comes to player base proportion ? If they are stupid enough to leave if they lose their story exclusiveness, they won't really weight a lot on the balance.

But I do trust they aren't idiot enough to react that childishly

MMO's literally fail because of the lack of a rewarding end game for those "ultra-hardcore raiders." It's the number 1 reason cited when MMO's fail. So no, it's not negligible.