If you're only doing the content because of the rewards and you don't enjoy the content itself, then I think that's something I'd step back and look at. I wouldn't want to play a game that I didn't have fun playing. My FC is currently farming all of the wolves, because it's fun to clear current content and succeed at it. And yet we'll still go back and unsync these mounts for new players who don't have time to commit thousands of hours to the old stuff as well as joining us for the new stuff. It doesn't take away my enjoyment now of my legendary kamuy for people to get it later, and in fact it's always fun to go back and faceroll things that were difficult the first time around. I did the thing, I had the mount for a year or more before folks who are waiting for unsync will get it. I'm not saying content needs to be nerfed but when it's not current? Sure.

If you do enjoy the fights and you're just against people getting old stuff that they didn't have to do the same way as you did, I say get over yourself. Games change. Nobody's against them tightening the post-Praetorium content slog because we understand that when a game gets longer, it gets more daunting to get through (although I bet that if there was a shiny reward for completing it some people would complain). Things don't need to be handed out, but making it easier to get old stuff leaves time to focus on new stuff. And it's still not "a quick run". RNG is still a thing to contend with. We spent 3h last night on Ifrit without one mount; Susano usually gives his out faster than that.

And if we're taking the "things should never get easier route" I'm going to have to say that this whole game needs to be cancelled. I played my first MMO on dial up, so it's a travesty that people are able to get their video game entertainment quicker and easier than I did. And if you ordered that pizza online, you're cheating. Real people order delivery on the phone. God, I hate these people who just turn on netflix, in my day you had to go to the Blockbuster and rent your movies in 3-day chunks!

And for those of you saying that this is why people expect everything to be handed to them, even to nerf new content, no. That's been a thing since time began. People were begging nerfs in original WoW, in EQ1, in City of Heroes and Guild Wars. And old games didn't actually sync you down, if I recall - I'm pretty sure that when I played vanilla my friends and I would just run through lower level dungeons to get random loot for newbies. (It's been a long time since I played, though, so I'm fully admitting that my memory is fuzzy.) I remember that SWtOR only introduced level sync late, though. Until then you could do low content at high levels any time you wanted. So don't act like this whole "cheesing lower level stuff" thing is some new lazy trick.