The general player base needs to improve

[KaivaC]

One of the best patches to be released to this date in the game was when they released Weeping city and Nidhog EX together.
It was deffintly a jump in difficulty for the kind of content it was.
There are more parties that can beat Byako ex in PF than level 70 parties who can beat Nidhog EX unsynced and that says a lot.

Let's take this to another level - there are more parties capable of beating Byakko Ex than there are of beating Hashmal in Rabanastre.