Why is the majority of the content in the game not ilv capped???

[ZellosWilder]

I don't think you understand exactly what would need to be done to make something like this work, or what the effects it would have on said content. Take wow for example, their timewalking raids are basically what you are asking for but a huge portion of the wow population don't do them because of either the time investment( which is not much) or the added difficulty that having your ilvl scaled down adds. Why do you think people run older raids and not current ones? Making older content take longer would only make that older content less populated.

What you are saying here makes no sense, how does older content taking longer to finish make it less populated...? as to the opposite of what we are getting in FF14 now which is if everything being easy to complete then nobody is looking to do it anymore as they are only needing to do it once in short space of time so after you have done everything there is no reason to go back and do older fights as gear was the only incentive and since doing the actual fight is no longer fun anymore as you can literally skip most of the mechanics there isn't any replayability unless you are only doing it for tomestones in rou and not for the actual fight/mechanics because you found it fun. And because you finish everything so fast due to everything being too easy there is nothing else left to do except for waiting for the next patch.

Older content shouldn't just be swept under the rug and overlooked or just cleared quickly just because it isn't irrelevant to the current expansion endgame. I found Titan Ex, Levi Ex, Shiva Ex and T5 T8 T9 Coil and even the alliance raids to be some of the most fun fights in the game in ARR but now nobody is looking to do them anymore because they can be done solo or low man them at lv70 so nobody is doing them how it was suppose to be like. The way most MMORPGs and FFXIV work at the moment with adding new expansions making older expansions dead is an old and outdated formula. Many players from WoW and FFXI were asking for legacy/classic servers because they can't experience the game anymore like it used to be.