The general player base needs to improve

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

There is only one solution, just one:

Don't play with randoms.

Seriously, that's it.

People who don't care/take game as serious as you will not change because you say so. You're just wasting your own time here, OP.

Okay, let's play that card. Do you know what that leads to?

People are forced to join FCs and linkshells or they're just left out in the cold. It becomes the haves and have nots. It creates an opportunity for exclusion. . . And let's turn it up now! Sure we've got cross server PF now, and that's great, but as you start spending more time running things with people you know (and perhaps might befriend), you'll eventually want to server transfer. . . Oh look! Now people are leaving X server for Y server because there's a higher percentage of clears or capable players on Y server, and none of the X server FCs/LSes are letting people in. . . OH LOOK! Y server's now locked, and X is a "preferred world". . .

As someone from Goblin, that is, if you were originally from Goblin before Stormblood, you should know how hard we got hit by things like this in the past.

[LandricFrey]

Okay, let's play that card. Do you know what that leads to?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but think about it. You can't change people who don't want to change. That's why you must make friends who value the game similar to yourself. Yup, convenience of PUG's are nice, but you have to accept the fact that you're going to get these people. Coming to the forums and demanding people git gud is pointless.