Dungeons are becoming style over substance.

[Izscha]

Yes that's my point and they're boring for a bulk of people simply because they're inconvenient to do when your concern is just a quick in and out. If you're running content with random people then yeah there is always a risk factor for wiping and that's the issue when people only want to run it as a chore.

Now this is a fair argument, just don't lock it in the same heap as regular roulettes. But let's face it what rewards would you really put behind it, and besides development is a finite resource. Something like this if it it separate of the whole routine stuff will always come at the expense of something else. Be it outright cuts, or just cutting corners. - I'm not saying the game is perfect as is, but my argument is just simply in a lot of cases the community doesn't know what it wants half the time, or the consequences of what they ask for that matter.

Heck, if I were being frank I would rather they just reintroduce PotD, give it more rewards, including regular gear updates, and then just have the 'difficulty' scale in accordance with the number of people in it.

Ppl are used to dungeons and roulette being like that, and nothing in roulettes are hard stuff anyway ( The only thing that could be considered hard is the mentor roulette with extremes, but that's not the average stuff that ppl do anyway ) so if a hard version of it must come out, it will stay out of roulette for sure.
And i do agree with you on that, but that's the thing with community we're not some sort of hive minds that wants the same things all the time.
It may seems like the community do want something and the opposite at the same time, but that's just ppl wanting different stuff while being in the same community, being FF 14 players nothing more that's the only thing that do connect us at some point, but each person want their own stuff.
If it was up to me i would never waste time and ressources in housing / male viera or sh*t like that, and focus on the gameplay and make it better than it is today, same for content or mecanics.
Others wants the exact opposite and we're both FF 14 players so yeah you'll often see ppl wanting one thing, and others not wanting it.