Encounter Design needs to be overhauled at a fundamental level

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But my argument is that how the game is designed is supposed to ease people into higher difficulty levels so they can learn and get used to playing the job and the mechanics so by the point they hit level cap to do endgame content they're prepared to deal with more complicated mechanics rather than throw them in the deepens.

But maybe it could be resolvable with 2 or 3 difficulty levels on each bit of content with different rewards? It worked in SW:TOR and it is sort of a thing in FFXI endgame.

We kinda have it with Normal and Savage raids. Normal and Extreme.

If we are cutting down dungeons, maybe it's room for the same dungeon with two different versions, normal and challenging. Challenging adds more mechanics but gives greater rewards, normal is what we have now.

Though personally I think 3 modes are better than two because you can do normal, hard and savage/extreme/challenge. Because there are people who sit in the middle who want a challenge but not to be a progression kind of challenge.

I would be one of those people. I dislike the strict formula of Extreme and Savage fights "do the dance or DIE."
I would be all for harder dungeons or rather something like "challenge" dungeons. In their own tier outside of roulettes.