...the whole fashion thing is a once a week gold saucer activity that you get four tries on, and will quickly devolve into people posting what to wear on reddit. It's a wondrous tails that centers around items with worse failure conditions for a trivial reward, apart from the one minion or title they give for doing it for a year. We have a whole raft of content similar to it that is designed for weekly currency drops, and I don't see wondrous tails, or both special deliveries as content that is fun or compelling. It's not like they are going to even add a glamour game like triple triad or fishings big fish, as its described its pretty shallow stuff.

As for raiding, i think its stupid but its needed to isolate the raiders from the general populace so they don't ruin the game for the rest of us, to be blunt.