I have very limited insight to how PvP works in any serious manner in this game. I do not play any other games; FFXIV is the only game I play. I do not watch streams (they never seem to hold my interest). I generally do not read posts about PvP because it does not interest me, and I usually don’t spend time reading things that don’t hold my interest.
The most I did was Frontlines during the Garo event for some outfits and the mounts, and I did a little bit of The Feast the last two weeks or so of Heavensward because I figured I would try it out. I have done one match of PvP (Shatter; no Feast matches) since the Stormblood rework; I have never touched Rival Wings. I do not consider myself proficient enough nor experienced enough in the content to start entering discussions about the current state of it. Nor do I think I have the right to tell more hardcore PvPers what “the truth” is about their content, or what their content is really like on any sort of serious level.
I honestly don’t know why you are so “disappointed” or “expected better” from me with regards to this viewpoint. I don’t do PvP; I don’t like it nor care for it, and it simply is just not my cup of tea. But I’m not about to go into a PvP-oriented discussion and start acting like I know what I’m talking about there... The only thing I would accomplish by doing that is making myself look like a fool.
The point I was making is, unless you have experience in the content, and an understanding of it, I don’t think you really have the right to tell people what the current state of said content is. Bobs’ understanding of the more difficult Deltascape Savage tiers seems to be limited to “watching videos”...which is vastly different from actually experiencing the fight itself. He has no experience in Ultimate either, yet he wants to tell people that have actually stepped into that content what the content is “actually like”. I disagree with such behavior. I think people should have a little bit of credentials if they want to talk about things like they know about them. And I’m not going to apologize for holding that viewpoint, regardless of what people think about it or me. /shrug