Square Enix is running out of ideas for raids

[Atreides]

Yeah i’ve noticed this too. Despite making so much money they’ve been cutting a lot of corners and the fact we aren’t seeing many unique mechs in this raid series so far is pretty telling.Also doesnt even have any voice acting. P4 is just Halicarnassus rehashed. P3 is just Suzaku etc. Also seeing a ton of reused gear etc. It’s all so boring but i don’t see them changing the formula sadly since a majority of the community will eat up any little scrap the devs feed to them.

It's still too early to judge the difficulty and mechanics as in savage they are always vastly different. The mechanics in normal are just a guideline with training wheels for stuff that happens without tells in savage among other things. In other words it's meant to be easily clearable by pople who just want to see the story.
That's why I've been judging the music mostly because thats something that doesn't change and I'm really not a fan this time around.