Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

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Super-Hot Take: Mentor hate is over exaggerated, and the community makes mentors seem worse than they really are. They also put incredibly unrealistic expectations upon mentors in an unpaid volunteered role. I feel like a lot mentor hate is falsely bias opinions influencing each other and because we act like mentor hate is "The cool thing to do". I see it more as people wanting to take part in schadenfreude and insult people in any way they can think of solely because they do not like them as a person. Are there bad mentors? Absolutely. There are bad sprouts to but this is always overlooked, ignored, even excused and treated as a non-issue just because they aren't the one with a crown. I find new players are often conditioned to hate mentors' way before they know what a mentor is and taught that they aren't doing their "job" by their friends and peers because its a meme to hate.

PS: There is also always this weird mentality of people pointing out sprouts make better mentors than mentors do on occasion but fail to realize that it could be a mentor on an alt. If a sprout knows the game better than the mentor does, then I find it highly probable that they are infact a mentor on an alt. I can't imagine a genuine true sprout that is knowledgeable of the game's inner mechanisms and knowingly and willfully being in the Novice Network if they weren't there to be a mentor in the first place. Yet somehow nobody in the community ever seems to consider this possibility when they start to insult mentors.