Players: Give us harder stuff.
Yoshida: Titan EX, Gordias, The Steps of Faith, The Second Coil of Bahamut Savage.
Players: It's too hard!

(Those were all things that most people complained about and were changed, abandoned or nerfed in some form. In Titan EX's case, it was removed as a gate to get into other EX primals.)

Just let the devs be devs. Personally, we don't need WoW crap here. FFXIV is not built around having an end-all armor for the rest of the game. It's not built around the same dungeons with just higher stats to make it more "difficult." It doesn't need a varied scale of armor if it'll all become moot come the next patch anyway. That's the beauty of FFXIV here that it reads like some people mean to change: regardless of whenever you join the game, once story is out of the way, it's incredibly easy to jump in and catch up. You don't need to pour your entire life into the game to stay relevant.