Yoshida on "carrying" other people

[linayar]

What would Yoshida do if everyone stopped bothering, and didn't carry others? Just "streamline" content even more?

I don't think we're in any danger of that any time soon. That said, I'll leave that answer to SE and enjoy the game as long as it's enjoyable.

This is pretty much why I have so little interest in this games endgame, and why I don't think this game will have much long-term appeal for me. Zerg style content is the lamest, trashiest content in MMO's and it makes me sad that this game is apparently so all in on it, to the point where they won't even consider smaller scale content with any substance.

That's up to you. I consider 8-player trials and raids to be small-scale enough, and they're very enjoyable on Normal difficulty with good enough rewards. That's enough of a substance from a video game for me.