I'm... sort of in-between atm. I don't mind mobs being tougher than they have been so far. It's true that getting into the beastmen strongholds to do various things (maps, hunt mobs, beast tribe quests, etc) is more of an annoyance than a danger -- even back when I wasn't wearing gear more than twice their level.

But I don't want it to go too far either, so it really becomes a must to party up to get through because mobs are both tough AND closely interspaced, so when you run you get seen by more mobs, and by the time you've lost aggro on all mobs you're back where you started.

The fact that a well-geared level 60 BLM (Yoshida's lalafell -- its hp/mp kinda says 'well-geared' to me) was saying that two level 53 chocobos were too tough to aggro makes me a little worried, but I'm hoping he was just exaggerating to avoid entering combat mode and revealing too much about the new spells. Sure, he could have picked higher-levelled mobs, but then he wouldn't have gotten to show off the enemy chocobos at the same time. Two birds (if you'll pardon the pun) with one stone.

So for now, I'm staying neutral and make up my mind on it once we get to those zones ^^