"Why do YOU want to do the raids the proper way? Answer that question and you know why other people might wanna do the same - you're not so special and alone in your wish to do the content properly.
Is it difficult and annoying to find people for that?
Yes. Yes, it is."

That first part is all the reasoning I need in wanting this. It shouldn't be difficult and annoying to find others wanting to do content that they already pay for. I'm a rather hardcore MMO raider, newer to FFXIV but not to raiding. I've managed large guilds and large 16M raid teams for harder level content, and I've never had any sort of difficulty organizing people to clear content through progression. I respect that people want the focus to be on the new raids, hence why I suggested the newer content still provide better rewards than older content. I'm perfectly aware that I'm not going to get people together to do Savage progression for old raids. And I don't like that. Again, how can giving other people incentive to do older content and be rewarded for it be anything but good for the health of the game? Would you do it? No? I know that plenty of players who are new to Eorzea such as myself may very much want to experience old content properly scaled and providing some sort of reward upon successful progression.

And also, they would know better than to think that allowing us to do older content is a reason not to provide newer content. You're telling me you're fine with farming four bosses for a quarter of a year, and then never touching them again? Making older content rewarding for players to fill their time with is nothing but a positive in my eyes, and I fail to see how you could think otherwise and not due to lack of trying. I'm trying to understand what your line of thought it, but I'm not getting anywhere. It is NOT difficult to just scale rewards from older raids, so it wouldn't exactly eat up development time or anything. And it would allow players like myself to properly enjoy the work that Square Enix has provided.