People defending eureka/diadem as they exists now are part of the problem. Yes.

A small part in my opinion.


Diadem failed, did live what... 3 weeks?
Diadem 2 failed² and people ran away after 1 week.
Then, Yoshida said "okay, we understood, stop diadem. And the diadem's team will take the time needed to do a better content for stormblood" (around 17 month from this to anemos release... they had time...)

Same team, nearly same content... nothing surprising would say.

BUT there is 1 big matter. Yoshida mainly watch what people are doing. "oh, they dont go to the feast, have to change things in PvP/Feast" "oh, everyone ran away from gordias, have to rethink the way we work sadic content". Yes people also speaked... But also, lot people did cry with atma step during ARR, do i have to remember what was the first relic stop for HW? (thank to the Zeta-skip \o/)

Atma? A lot people cried (all?) but a lot (all?) did stay doing them to get their relic. then animus, nexus, novus etc etc.

People are going anemos, pagos, pyros, (next will be Mykonos? wouldnt change a lot with what we have). So Yoshida probably think that, even if people are crying, the content is good enough.
Pagos, people was leaving because no fate train = no easy exp = more boring than boring. people running away => paaaaaaatch and return of fate train.

People continue to use any content = this content is good enough, continue