Dungeons are becoming style over substance.

[Velnora]

No, it's only a 'reduction in content' when viewed strictly from the bias perspective of a specific content scope. "We have less dungeons." This is a long tired, dead argument that's been disproven time and time again. There's a limited amount of production time and manpower than can be done within a span of time. Ignoring the rather glaring external factors that have affected nearly every major production out there - FFXIV has actually done quite well in distributing content throughout its various scope to be sure that each has not been neglected, while still being able to produce new content for various sources. And they've had to resort to using tricks to do so as well.

So unless you literally have the timetables of effort/production in your hands from SE staff, kindly don't speak of an industry you have no remote understanding of.

And if you're still itching for combat content, go back and fully explore Bozja/Zandor. That's where a LOT of combat effort went and it produced some rather quality pieces. (Even if it's not my personal preference.) The one thing we objectively lost was an Ultimate -that was announced lost to prevent the delay in Endwalker from being worse than it has been.

It hasn't been "disproven". Are you really going to partially blame COVID for this? Considering this started before COVID was a thing, that excuse doesn't work. "That's where a LOT of combat effort went and it produced some rather quality pieces". A bunch of glorified FATES, oh joy.

The game has only grown in playerbase, and the excuse is always "resources". Sorry, if that is the issue, they really need to reassess how they do things. It's amazing how in Stormblood, we had 4 zones of Eureka and BA, along with more dungeons. This is also a thread on dungeons, so yes, it will have a specific content scope.