Feast (4v4 Ranked PvP) wasn't actually that bad, but it was set up to fail by SE

[Ixon]

What is the point of that?
All the illustrations listed by you are nevertheless fighting against programmed AI and that is called PvE.
It does nothing when players are not programmed AI.

Fun fact, most tutorials are against AI, from fighting games to fps's, so this isn't anything new. Take the Hall of Novice, drop it into a Feast or Crystal Conflict arena, and boom, you have a player who now knows the basics and won't get roflstomped their first 50 games. Feast in general is fairly complex compared to the rest of FFXIV content, even compared to some end game raids, due to how unpredictable and dynamic the encounters in Feast can be. So asking for a single leg up to help users integrate into PVP isn't a large request when there are even tutorials in game for something as simple as Triple Triad or Chocobo Racing. Just because some other games don't do it, doesn't mean it can't be done here.

Despite the Adrenaline Rush last being updated 3years 7months* ago(which is accurate considering almost nothing with Feast has changed since then), the fact that it exists shows more involvement SE has with the JP PVP community for one reason or another. It's a running gag that nothing changes unless it appears on the JP forums because well, for the most part it's true. SE having a stronger connection with the PVP communities across all regions, assigning personal to be the leads of those communities, and having meaningful, constant, communications with those leads for them to feed that information back to SE headquarters would serve only to improve the game mode for the better. This isn't a huge thing to ask for, and the small steps here and there would help strengthen what is arguably the weakest part of FFXIV when looked at from the perspective of an MMO, lackluster PVP.