POTD is especially boring for new/returning players, like me.

I did my first POTD run using the matched party and everyone else was killing monsters before my cast even finished because my aether gear was not leveled, and I guess theirs was.
That means I'm essentially being carried until my gear goes up. At least with regular dungeons, the level sync does a really good job of making me not feel useless when experienced players are in my party. (and yes I know there is some sort of a sync for POTD, but it's not well balanced if a boss can die in about 3 seconds)