Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Saimeren]

If you want your job to be engaging, play Ultimate, the hardest content in the game that only a few percentage of actual players do.

That should tell you everything you need to know right there.

If only a fraction of the playerbase are doing ultimates, that should suggest that the majority of the playerbase is fine with all of the other content you just dismissed.

If people weren't satisfied with savages and extremes then you'd simply see more participation in ultimates. Even if it's failures. You'd still see more people doing it trying to get better.

If you're so good at the game that doing savages and extremes is like blowing a piece of paper with a breeze, then you have the ultimates. If the challenge that you're complaining about wanting is too hard for you, then get better.

Learn the fights and push the buttons better. If you're as good as you think you are, progression shouldn't be an issue for you. Just because you can't clear it in the first few go arounds, doesn't mean it's "too hard". Do proper progression and get better at the fights over time.

You also have to remember; just because you're good at the game, doesn't mean everyone else is. FFXIV is rather friendly to "bad" gamers. (bad is relative/subjective, it's just the blanket term I'm using.) Yoshi-P knows that the majority of his playerbase aren't going to be clearing ultimates so he has his team focus on the "easier" content.

Just because someone sucks at the game doesn't mean they don't want to feel power progression and move up the raid/trial tiers. So they introduce that to those of us who aren't that good or can't dedicate the time they'd like for proper progression.

So, I see one of two situations here.

A- You're as good as you think you are and should be able to progress in ultimates and this is largely a non issue for you

B- You're not as good as you think you are, can't do ultimate progression very well and are just trying to inflate your ego by telling everyone how easy you think this game is. At which point savages and extremes are likely where you belong.