FF14s difficulty spike is ridiculous.
You can get up to level 60 without any trouble regardless how wrong/bad you play. No clue how your jobs works? no problem, heck some guy did not even know about job gems and never had any problem in any instance (I met him in HW content). Everything is so undertuned you just don't have to try hard, you don't have any need to improve, you don't have any need to use everything your class has to offer and many players won't find the need to improve since everything can be done regardless... and then suddenly they are here, fully geared in eso gear and wonder why the can't beat Thordan EX or even Faust (even on normal... yes that happens)

We need a middle ground! And motivate players to improve so they can beat said middle ground difficulty instances.