Variance in player skill is hurting FFXIV's itemization design.

[Kallera]

You must not be talking about end-game raiding, because if you are you have no clue what's going on.

The raiding scene is smaller than it was during coil, the amounts of clears T13 vs A4S in the same amount of time is abysmal, Midas clears are better but still far from as much as coil, did people get bored of raiding or did they simply quit, or was it because it's harder than coil? All of them.

If you want i can provide numbers of end-game raiding clears.

The amount of t13 clears was pretty poor even in its own time. you can't just insist the game no longer be for casual players anymore. Keeping raiding out of reach will only cause people to ignore it, and abandon it when it goes too far.